Memorial Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Memorial Day, Dad

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• To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

  Barack Obama

  Memorial Day, Memories, Hero

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• Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

  Courteney Cox

  Memorial Day, Past, Men

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• It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rivers, Political, Fields

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Race, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12”, p.74, Best Books on

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• You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

  May Sarton

  Long, Figures

  May Sarton (2014). “Coming into Eighty: Poems”, p.36, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we miss you so much.

  Susan Wallace

  Girl, Love You, Missing

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• Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.

  Anne Bronte

  Cheer, Farewell, Heart

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.211, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funeral, Heaven, Lamps

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• He hath awakened from the dream of life.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Headstone, Gravestone

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 39

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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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• 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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• To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

  Nathan East

  Memorial Day, Soldier, Matter

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• The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Restless

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