Daniel Libeskind Quotes

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

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

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

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.

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

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

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

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

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

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 have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.

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

I love Remembrance Sunday.

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.

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

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.