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memorial-day military thinking
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. Benjamin Harrison
memorial-day sacrifice long
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. Bob Riley
memorial-day happy-memorial-day honoring-memorial-day
All gave some, Some gave all. Billy Ray Cyrus
memorial-day hero men
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
memorial-day memories hero
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Benjamin Disraeli
memorial-day hero patriotic
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge
memorial-day veterans-day children
We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery. Jamie Lee Curtis
memorial-day war rivers
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
memorial-day easter kings
I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day. Chris Crutcher
eye exercise cry
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Charles Dickens
eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
soul littles spirit
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.
soul immortal software
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] Charles Stross
soul jerusalem praying
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed. Charles Spurgeon
soul glory salvation
The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.
soul fruit praise
We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.
soul links riches
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
soul hell christ
Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.
soul sorrow three
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.
soul feds wells
A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.