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It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. — Christopher Hitchens

In the end, we all inherit a stone, after life's waves have rolled over us - and hopefully, she'll write upon it — John Geddes

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost. — Dean Koontz

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan. — Hadiqa Kiani

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. — Todd Stocker

"Dead upon the field of glory,"
Hero fit for song and story. — John R. Thompson

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders. — Chuck Palahniuk

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. — Pericles

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is important that we remember.
It is vital we do more than just remember. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Every memorial in its time has a different goal. — Maya Lin

Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me — Jerry Seinfeld

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. — Albert Einstein

Ah! never shall the land forget. — William C. Bryant

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. — Flannery O'Connor

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. — Seneca The Younger

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

Mom Memorial Haiku [1]
I feel my mom so
much alive in me that there's
not even room for me. — Beryl Dov

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. — David Dimbleby

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. — Minot Judson Savage

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. — Alexander Smith

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

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. — Maya Lin

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

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. — Nick Lampson

You must miss New San Diego. I heard they finally finished the Obama Memorial Bridge. — Lee Strauss

For the love of country they accepted death. — James A. Garfield

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. — Oliver Lodge

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us. — William Tyndale

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. — E. Joseph Cossman

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. — Will Carleton

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight. — Rupert Hughes

On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses. — Richelle E. Goodrich

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something. — Criss Jami

Memorial Bridge already? — Dan Brown

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor. — Paul Tsongas

No day shall erase you from the memory of time — Virgil

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you. — Israelmore Ayivor

The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings. — Glenn Beck

Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen. — William Robert Woodman

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

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

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well. — Joyce Grenfell

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. — Henry Ward Beecher

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. — William Westmoreland

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

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service. — Lynn Flewelling

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

9/11 was an INSIDE JOB...WAKE THE FUCK UP! — Patrick Michael Mooney

Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful "I miss you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Memorial, Elena said, wanted to "give a name" to the victims of the Stalin era; — David Remnick

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! — Alexander Henry

Wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her. — Haruki Murakami

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. — Frank Knox

Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson

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

Never wish a veteran "Happy" Memorial Day. — Rick DeStefanis

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie. — Brian Spellman

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey

What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed. — Nathan Filer

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man. — Richard Watson Gilder

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country. — Zebulon Pike

In your carefree heart; I want to be your Memorial for a life time. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial. — Nathan Rabin

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor. — Pink

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies. — Moina Michael

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. — Jeff Miller

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson

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

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor. — George H. W. Bush

God I s Not A Religion. — Gary Beck

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

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. — Baden Powell De Aquino

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee. — Saint Augustine

Forever my light shines on you brightly;
Love from above, I will send to you nightly. — Jessica M. Collette

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual. — Flannery O'Connor

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. — Bob Riley

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another. — Duke Of Wellington

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell

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

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space. — Daniel Libeskind

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

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. — Robert E.Lee

Love for one's country is part of faith. — Muhammad

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason — Scot McKnight

People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts! — Israelmore Ayivor

A president can't go to every memorial service. — Nancy Gibbs

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn't ther — David Levithan

A Sonnet is a
moment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti