9 11 Memorial Quotes

All gave some, Some gave all.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

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.

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

Their own souls rose and cried Alarum when they heard the sudden wail Of stricken freedom and along the gale Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

They saw their injured country's woe.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

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.

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

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

Ah! never shall the land forget.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

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

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

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.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

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.

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.