Memorial Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is that there's no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used. Memory is a very interesting thing. We very selectively curate our story and then stop when it begins to tell other people's stories and forces us to accept some kind of culpability. One reason I write is that there's not enough Muslims writing, Pakistanis writing, not enough people of faith writing about the complexities of our experiences.

  Haroon Moghul

  Memories, Writing, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.

  Andy Weir

  Kings, Want, Mars

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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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• Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

  Anne Tyler

  Comfort, Memorial Service

  Anne Tyler, Monica McInerney (2012). “The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, God, Men

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

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

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• Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

  Allen West

  Country, Memorial Day, Ignored

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• From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

  Allen West

  Summer, Memorial Day, Monday

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life Lesson, Believe, Unanswered Questions

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• For love of country, they accepted death.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Memorial Day, Accepted

  "The works of James Abram Garfield". Volume 1,

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• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Remembrance

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• I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

  Debra Messing

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  "‘Will & Grace’ Stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing Reunite To Support The Trevor Project". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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  A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

  Mark Twain

  War, Names, Library

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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• Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Book, Fate

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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