It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God. — Pat Robertson
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. — John Lothrop Motley
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. — Frederick Douglass
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Sayings
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. — Robert Lowell
Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Monuments are for the living, not the dead. — Frank Wedekind
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. — Joseph Joubert
United States: the country where liberty is a statue. — Nicanor Parra
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. — William Hazlitt
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln
There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race. — John Brown
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce
Our Memories Quotes
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. — Harry S. Truman
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. — Jeremy Irons
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. — Stevie Wonder
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold — Chuck Schuldiner
No Memory Quotes
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant
Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. — Masaru Emoto
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. — Stephen King
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore
Memory Quotes
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. — Norman Wisdom
A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Unknown
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. — Grace Kelly
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
Listen with your heart, you will understand. — Pocahontas
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Memories Quotes
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do — Elvis Presley
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Buddha
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel
The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory — Nizar Qabbani
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. — Joyce Carol Oates
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. — Gutzon Borglum
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. — Sarah Vowell
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right. — David Nevins
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory. — William Lee Miller
My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics. — Barack Obama
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it. — Walt Whitman
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible. — Newt Gingrich
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. — Yvette Clarke
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever — Royal Cortissoz
The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings. — Glenn Beck
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