Memorial Quotes - Page 15

• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Government, Years, Design

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

  William Falconer

  Giving, Woe, Tales

  William Falconer (1807). “The shipwreck, by W. Falconer, with a sketch of his life”, p.8

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• You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

  Eric Idle

  Crazy, Years, Nuts

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

  Jenny Holzer

  Writing, Numbers, People

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

  David Levithan

  Cities, Gone, Forgotten

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• Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

  John Green

  Cancer, Heart, Eight

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.149, Penguin

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• The ones that love us never really leave us.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Harry Potter Movie, Sirius

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• The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

  Barack Obama

  Memorial Day, Hero, Sacrifice

  Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 30, 2011.

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• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

  Hervey Allen

  Memorial Day, Lying, Heart

  Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Memorial Day, Adversity, Men

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Dwight Schultz

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Mean

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• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

  Blaise Pascal

  Memorial Day, War, Rivers

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• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Memorial Day, War, One Day

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• All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

  George Orwell

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Evil

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• There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

  Elliot Johnson

  Memorial Day, Floating, Shells

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• Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

  Gale Harold

  Memorial Day, Hero, Mean

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• At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Fashion

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• It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Memorial Day, War, Technology

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Mutual Love, Crowns, Engagement

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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• We cannot wait for others to make a difference, we have to be the change ourselves. To be a part of the making of yet another cancer hospital is a blessing in itself.' Watch me live on ARY Digital and donate to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar as much as you can.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Cancer, Blessing, Differences

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