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It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
Rob Gronkowski cost me the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I haven't forgot that.
The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.
I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
Whether it's Memorial Day or any other holiday, music has the power to set any mood and build long-lasting memories.
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we miss you so much.
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
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.
I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.
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.
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
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.
The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.
I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'
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.
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
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.
Memorial Day is a special day to take pause and pay tribute to those brave men and women who lost their lives defending our country and preserving our way of life.
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.
A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.