Memorial Quotes - Page 7

• But monument themselves memorials need.

  George Crabbe

  Needs, Monument

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

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• O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians

  Louis of Granada

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

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• They saw their injured country's woe.

  Philip Freneau

  Country, Memorial Day, Woe

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• Their own souls rose and cried
  Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
  Of stricken freedom and along the gale
  Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

  John Le Gay Brereton

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rose

  John Le Gay Brereton, “The Dead”

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• They saw their injured country's woe;
  The flaming town, the wasted field;
  Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
  They took the spear, - but left the shield.

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Memorial Day

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

  E. B. White

  Casting Off, Voyages, Nautical

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Memories, Past

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

  Michael Wilbon

  Summer, Memorial Day, Cities

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Loss, America, Heaven

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• There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Spiritual, Differences

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• Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

  Rich Sommer

  Memorial Day, Couple, Weekend

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• Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.

  William Morley Punshon

  Gratitude, Heart, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 371), 1895.

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• The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Past, Years, Black

  "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

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• They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

  R. S. Thomas

  Lonely, Children, Book

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

  Billy Collins

  Wall, Heart, Names

  Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.209, Random House

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• I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said.
  Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memorial Day, Children, Islands

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• Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Delight, World, Cry

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1900). “Fancy's Following”

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• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Warrior

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• Fold him in his country's stars.
  Roll the drum and fire the volley!
  What to him are all our wars,
  What but death bemocking folly?

  George Henry Boker

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169

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• [Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery of this new metal happened in the period of astronomical discovery of the new planet Uranus.

  Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Science, Discovery, Names

  "Analytical Essays towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances" by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, London: Cadell & Davies, 1801.

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• Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Giving, Survival

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.221, University of Georgia Press

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• The Memorial Dedication was a momentous occasion

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Dedication, Occasions

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• In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

  David Nevins

  Trying, Washington Monument, Culture

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• Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

  James Carafano

  Memorial Day, War, Struggle

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