“Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.” WorldMadeWholeMemoriesOur LivesObjectsBuildingFragmentsMemorial Author:Anthony Lawlor
“Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.” MenMaySoulPastMemoriesClearWiseModernRemembranceOblivionMemorialIliad Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations
“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.” YearsWellsImportantMemoriesInspiringHonorGratitudeTroopsCeremonyMemorialMemorial DayLive Well Author:Jennifer Granholm
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.” KindStatesHelpingWould BeSchoolGirlMemoriesUnitedEffortCitiesBoysUnited StatesTaughtCapableHonorableMemorialMonumentLivelihoodGreat Cities Author:Susan B. Anthony
“In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.” WayShouldWarEndsStatesMemoriesUnitedUnited StatesHonorDiedSevenThis DayMemorialMemorial DayIdiocyThose Who Have Died Author:Andy Rooney
“I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.” SaidStatesUseBigsRememberMemoriesSawsNeededPeriodsConcernedClintonGlassesInterviewsPrintWeekendSecretaryMemorialCiaFbiExitMemorial DayMagnifyingNo MemoryConcussionsMagnifying GlassMemorial Day Weekend Author:Rudy Giuliani