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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."
"When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived."
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."
"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."
"Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past."
"What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps."
"I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode."
"A good death does honour to a whole life."
"If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb."
"We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail."
"Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life."
"Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we miss you so much."
"The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains."
"It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers."
"You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love."
"Every memorial in its time has a different goal."
