Keith Coogan 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.

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

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

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.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

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

It's important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

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

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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

One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

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.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.