Memorial Quotes - Page 10

• When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

  Volkmar Wentzel

  Fall, Night, Light

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• I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Nice, Looks, Want

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• Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Memories, Son

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

  Michele Bachmann

  Weekend, Years, Yesterday

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• The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.

  Glenn Beck

  Government, Trying, Gathering

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

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• Love for one's country is part of faith.

  Muhammad

  Country, Memorial Day

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• I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

  Rick Atkinson

  Thank You, Country, Memorial Day

  "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

  Danah Zohar

  Running, Children, Cancer

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• And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Essence, Mountain

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Winter”

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• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

  Pericles

  Country, Heart, Men

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• Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Morning, Children, Taken

  "Obama: Decade Since 9/11 a Story of American Resilience". www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2011.

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.

  Ruth May Fox

  Utah, Historical, Great Day

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Space, Retail

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• Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

  Joseph Story

  Graduation, School, Excellence

  Joseph Story (1835). “The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected”, p.73

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• I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

  Bernard Kerik

  Iraq, People, September 11

  "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

  Maya Lin

  Cutting, Vietnam, Earth

  Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996

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• I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Garden, People

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• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Presidential, Age, Library

  "An Appraisal" by Ada Louise Huxtable, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 1971.

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• "Dead upon the field of glory,"
  Hero fit for song and story.

  John R. Thompson

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Song

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• Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.

  Richard J. Evans

  Museums, Holocaust, Example

  Richard J. Evans (2007). “Lying About Hitler”, p.261, Basic Books

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