Memorial Quotes

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

My heart goes out to the families of our fallen officers.

All gave some, Some gave all.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

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

Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But the people of Hawaii are strong and we will persevere.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

America will never forget the service and sacrifice of our 9/11 heroes and their families.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, “For tomorrow these gave their today.”

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.