Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

Gale Harold

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Tom Johnson

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

Paul Wright

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

William Bass

Once a year, we have a memorial service,

Charles Schumer

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

I've just spoken with Rohan on the phone. He had just returned from a memorial service.

Burt Lancaster

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Fred Rogers

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Eric Burdon

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Hoover

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

It was important to her and I wanted to see that it was done. It was kind of a memorial to her.

Lucy Larcom

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

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.

John Conyers

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

John M. McHugh

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

John Linder

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

Judith Martin

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

Joshua Chamberlain

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

Joshua Chamberlain

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

Joyce Grenfell

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

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.

Ovid

The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

J. K. Rowling

The ones that love us never really leave us.

Nathan East

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

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