“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.” Has BeensHandsVictoryBattleGravesSurvivorFuneralRelativeEstablishmentAftermath Book:The American Way of Death Revisited Source: The American Way of Death Revisited
“Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.” StillsCountryAbleBattleGardenBraveAutumnGatesSurvivorRetreatOctoberBannerChrysanthemums Author:Patricia Moyes
“That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.” WellsEndsDoneTodayResultsCommonBattleBenefitsUniversalArmyEndureProofWelcomeSurvivorConfessionSectionsMonumentVirginiaDescendantsWell DoneUnitingGallantAcclaim Author:William Howard Taft
“All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.” WarHomeBehindsSeaBattleSurvivorPeril Book:The illustrated Odyssey Source: The illustrated Odyssey
“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.” MindHeartDoeMomentsWould BeMotherEmotionBrainMy HeartBattleSafeDaughterScientistComplexesSurvivorTrappedTrenchesMayhemLove For Her Book:Still Alice Source: Still Alice