Mike Portnoy Quotes

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

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

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

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 love Remembrance Sunday.

We'll never do a show without honouring Steo in some shape or form, and that's really important to us.

I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

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

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

But monument themselves memorials need.

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.