Commemorate Quotes

#1. My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Phyllis Diller

#2. As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto - where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won.

David Elazar

#3. And people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.

Garrison Keillor

#4. There were three thin wrinkles at her neckline, sharply etched, like notches on the road of life. Or maybe they were marks to commemorate when three wishes had come true - though Ushikawa had serious doubt that this had ever happened.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

Danny Gregory

#6. This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You

Alastair Reynolds

#7. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

Conan O'Brien

#8. Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.

Oscar Niemeyer

#9. It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

Eliot Engel

#10. I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

Ivica Dacic

#11. K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein ... and romance. Always, always romance.

Alan Moore

#13. Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Michael McCaul

#14. How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words written down, not the paper.

David Levithan

#15. How did I get to the place where I would be considering that darkest of all escapes - suicide - on the day when we commemorate our Lord's death for us all? That is the question this story seeks to answer.

Todd A. Peperkorn

#16. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...

Taylor Swift

#17. As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

Eric D. Huntsman

#18. I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

Howard Florey

#19. MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. No man ever puts down what he intended to say ... words ... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

Henry Miller

#21. My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

#22. Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false ... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. But it is these deaths - the killings in Ferguson and Beavercreek and beyond - that commemorate the unfinished, perhaps unending, struggle to assert black humanity in a country built on its denial.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

#24. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

Rachel Maddow

#25. Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Jacques Audiard

#26. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#27. To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

Emily Gould

#28. Freedom is a hard thing to let go of even if you know you don't deserve it.

M.J. Winn

#29. I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

#30. So many doors around here, I'm surprised your name isn't Monty Hall.

Randall Kenneth Drake

#31. I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

John Burnham Schwartz

#32. The longest journey I have ever taken is the love for my wife, it never ended.

Adel Abouhana

#33. The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salvador Dali

#34. I would definitely love to be a parent.

Kate Walsh