Nik Wallenda Quotes

Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.

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.

The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.

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 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.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

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.

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.

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.

I grew up playing sports. But I always celebrate Veterans Day.

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

Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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.