Jack Bruce Quotes

I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them or pay tribute to them, you want to do it in a way that's thoughtful.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Pass this bill as the memorial to our late beloved President.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

It's nice to be remembered.

There is nothing triumphant or boastful in the way we mourn the dead and pay our veterans the respect they deserve.

Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in my life who are no longer with me, who have died, who are with me as much as any living person because I remember everything about them. My great-uncle, who I got a lot of guidance in life from, meant so much to me.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.