And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. — Joseph Rodman Drake
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies. — Moina Michael
Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free! — Spartacus
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling — Rudyard Kipling
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. — John McCrae
The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. — Rudyard Kipling
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. — Abraham Lincoln
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother — Anna Freud
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No day shall erase you from the memory of time — Virgil
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Sayings
In Flanders fields the poppies blow. — John McCrae
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living — Mother Jones
Memorial Day Poems Image Quotes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Memorial Day Messages Quotes
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. — William Shakespeare
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! — Thomas William Parsons
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. — Liane Moriarty
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. — Albert Einstein
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head. — Richard Hovey
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. — William Shakespeare
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. — Walter Scott
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke
Memorial Day Quotes
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll
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
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
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously. — Julio Cortazar
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. — Norman Schwarzkopf
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day — Roger Meddows Taylor
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day. — Charles Rangel
I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done. — Helen Lowrie Marshall
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. — Francis Marion Crawford
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below — John McCrae
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. — John McCrae
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. — Zell Miller
They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield. — Philip Freneau
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. — Henry Ward Beecher
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth. — Thomas Moore
Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A. — Lee Greenwood
Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly? — George Henry Boker
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day. — Will Carleton
"Dead upon the field of glory,"
Hero fit for song and story. — John R. Thompson
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man. — Richard Watson Gilder
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster
They saw their injured country's woe. — Philip Freneau
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight. — Rupert Hughes
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave - — William C. Bryant
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? — Henry Ward Beecher
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead. — William Shakespeare
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