Memorial Quotes - Page 13

• Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Goes On, Hell, Wells

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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• In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Education, War, Vietnam

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• The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Feelings, Different, Hearing

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• I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

  Samuel Wilson

  Senior, White, Enough Time

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• And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

  David Dimbleby

  Victoria, Built

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• My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Use, Research, Variables

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• It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Cities, Creating

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• Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, Voice, Space

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

  Jack Bruce

  Hurt, Long, Gone

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• It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

  Adam Clarke

  Degrees, Fame, Wells

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

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• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Shadow

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• To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

  Scot McKnight

  Temples, Reason, Walks

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• It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

  Kim Stanley

  War, Vietnam, Lists

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• I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

  James Cromwell

  Memorial Day, War, Son

  "James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Sweet, Dark, Awards

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• Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Space, Retail

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Memorial Day, Home, Yankees

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  Pliny the Younger

  Lying, Fall, Mean

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• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Cancer, People, Generosity

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• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Real, Writing, Dying

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

  Amy Waldman

  Block, Taken, Artist

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• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  Amy Waldman

  Virginia, Names, Design

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

  Criss Jami

  Memorial Day, Courageous, Heroic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Men, Honor, Gains

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• If I shouldn't be alive
  When the Robins come,
  Give the one in Red Cravat,
  A Memorial crumb.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Giving, Robins

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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