Commemorative Dedication Quotes

#1. A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy,

Neil Gaiman

#2. An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other.

George R R Martin

#3. Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Billy Graham

#4. Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Lee Iacocca

#5. In spiritual warfare, as we detect enemy activity and deploy the various pieces of armor, our prayers need to be fervent and specific, strategic and personal, tied to the specific needs arising at that specific occasion.

Priscilla Shirer

#6. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

Paul Auster

#7. Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Laurent Jalabert

#8. Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.

Vivien Alcock

#9. Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Jodi Picoult

#10. The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.

Carl Hiaasen

#11. If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

Octavia Butler

#12. You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?

John Osborne

#13. Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie