Memorial Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The ones that love us never really leave us.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Harry Potter Movie, Sirius

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Memorial Day, War, Order

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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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