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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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

  Michael N. Castle

  Country, Memorial Day, Hero

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

  Rudyard Kipling

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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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.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Memorial Day, Brother

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

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Military

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Men

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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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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• 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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• There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

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