Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Danica Patrick

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

Gale Harold

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

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.

Clarence Darrow

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Tom Johnson

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

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Orwell

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

James Cromwell

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.'

George Crabbe

But monument themselves memorials need.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

Henry Waxman

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Henry Ward Beecher

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

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.

Philip James Bailey

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

John Gallagher

The memorial will be a magnificent tribute to those we lost.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Maya Angelou

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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.

Kurt Angle

Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is lacking is Memorial Day, which is today by the way, where we in the States celebrate our war heroes by having barbeques . And I realize here in Canada you can't have barbeques because you'd probably be attacked by a moose, or caribou, or even a grizzly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Novalis

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Lee Greenwood

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

Lee Greenwood

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.