#memorial

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us. ↗

— William Tyndale

#blood #body #cause #christ #given

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#different #feeling #had #hearing #i

We do this thing. We open our hearts to the world around us. And the more we do that, the more we allow ourselves to love, the more we are bound to find ourselves one day - like Dave, and Morley, and Sam, and Stephanie - standing in the kitchen of our live, surrounded by the ones we love, and feeling empty, and alone, and sad, and lost for words, because one of our loved ones, who should be there, is missing. Mother or father, brother or sister, wife or husband, or a dog or cat. It doesn't really matter. After a while, each death feels like all the deaths, and you stand there like eveyone else has stood there before you, while the big wind of sadness blows around and through you. "He was a great dog," said Dave. "Yes," said Morley. "He was a great dog. ↗

— Stuart McLean

#death

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#announced #any #creation #design #families

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

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

— Philip James Bailey

#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man