Memorial – Quotes

Don’t forget who your

Don’t forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you. Gale Harold

I’m sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation… when they realise instinctively that this is their game… I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground. Evonne Goolagong … Read more

The black arrowed swoop

The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and … Read more

You could feel the

You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn’t been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which … Read more

On Memorial Day, I

On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. Eric Burdon

If I shouldn\\’t be

If I shouldn’t be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb. Emily Dickinson

There were big geysers

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. Elliot Johnson

I am weary seeing

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is not merely

It is not merely the likeness which is precious… but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing… the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think – and it is not at all monstrous in me to say … Read more

Four things support the

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