Memorial Quotes - Page 5

• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

  Walter Scott

  Memorial Day, Soldier, Warfare

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.140

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• Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wisdom, Peace, Buddhist

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Country, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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• Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Memories

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

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• The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Sacrifice, Giving

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  Memorial Day, Mean, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Generations

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Remembrance, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Change, Positive, Inspirational Life

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Death, Prayer, Thinking

  In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3

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• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Safe, Headstone

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

  John M. McHugh

  Memorial Day, War, America

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• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

  Rupert Brooke

  Lonely, Memorial Day, Military

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Memorial Day

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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