Commemorations Commemorations Quotes & Sayings

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations? — Patti Davis

Why would you want my given name?"

"Because I'd like to call out your given name when I thrust into you."

~Dante — Tina Folsom

I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous. — Mike Birbiglia

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices. — Donna Rice

The danger was within itself: it was the crisis of confidence it was going through, the fear of being itself. When you considered them individually, French boys were as active and intelligent as ever. But they lacked the sort of shared hope and dreams which are the sign of health in a people. The fact that the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Revolution were only funeral commemorations revealed that weakness, that lifelessness. It was so clear — Jean Guehenno

Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is. — Fausto Cercignani

There was little point in mourning a thing you'd never had, and so she didn't mourn, most days. — Cecilia Grant

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil. — Ayn Rand

Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future. — Martin McGuinness

She said that white towns had simply banded together to rid themselves of the black stronghold in their midst. That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it. If — Colson Whitehead

At the first Holocaust memorial commemoration in the Capitol Rotunda, both President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Mondale referred to the 'eleven million victims.' Carter also used Wiesenthal's figures of 'six million Jews and five million others' in his Executive Order establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. I have attended Holocaust memorial commemorations in places as diverse as synagogues and army forts where eleven candles were lit. More significant is that strangers have repeatedly taken me and other colleagues to task for ignoring the five million non-Jews. When I explain that this is an invented concept, they become convinced of my ethnocentrism. — Deborah E. Lipstadt

The turtles and birds who lived on the islands were also very friendly, as they hardly ever saw any humans and were always pleased to have some company. — Alexander McCall Smith

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. — Andrew Lo

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

September 11
We thought we'd outdistanced history
Told our children it was nowhere near;
Even when history struck Columbine,
It didn't happen here.
We took down the maps in the classroom,
And when they were safely furled,
We told the young what they wanted to hear,
That they were immune from a menacing world.
But history isn't a folded-up map,
Or an unread textbook tome;
Now we know history's a fireman's child
Waiting at home alone. — Richard Peck

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. — Friedrich Nietzsche