#memoria

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#because #came #i #i think #invent

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone ↗

— Richard Puz

#death-and-love #death-of-a-loved-one #eternal-love #healing #healing-the-past

Era ancora troppo giovane per sapere che la memoria del cuore elimina i brutti ricordi e magnifica quelli belli, e che grazie a tale artificio risuciamo a tollerare il passato. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#passato #ricordi #love

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#between #call #done #enough #felt

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ↗

— James Bryce

#consists #country #flag #our #patriotism

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#jefferson #libraries #lincoln #memorials #now

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless. ↗

— Barack Obama

#nature

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#new-years #new-years-eve #snow

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man