Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Riley

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

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Benjamin Harrison

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.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

William Bass

Once a year, we have a memorial service,

Duke of Wellington

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

Martin Luther

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Nancy Gibbs

A president cant go to every memorial service.

Tom DeLay

The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

Marcus Garvey

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Marcus Garvey

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.

Paddy Chayefsky

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Philip James Bailey

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Charles Schumer

It's Memorial Day. It's important that we remember the sacrifices of the dead,

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

Lawrence Halprin

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Tacitus

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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.

Kenneth Arrow

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

To me, Memorial is a team you have to respect. They don't play the score.

Tom Johnson

The simpler the message, the better the memorial will be.

Paul Tsongas

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Pink

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.

Thomas Moore

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

Thomas S. Monson

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

Walt Whitman

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

Samuel Johnson

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Richard M. Nixon

This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.