Memorial Quotes

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)
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. View quote
Doc Hastings
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. View quote
Maya Lin
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. View quote
Russ Carnahan
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! View quote
William Falconer
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. View quote
Sarah Vowell
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. View quote
R. S. Thomas
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. View quote
Ben Barnes
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn't ther. View quote
David Levithan
Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. (David Levithan)
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. View quote
William Westmoreland
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. View quote
William Westmoreland
And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. View quote
David Dimbleby
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
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. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. View quote
Jack Bruce
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. View quote
John M. McHugh
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. View quote
Maya Lin
Every memorial in its time has a different goal. (Maya Lin)
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. View quote
Maya Lin
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. View quote
Pete Hegseth
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life. View quote
Robin Hayes
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave. View quote
Ron Kovic