Memorial Day Hero Quotes

#1. Torture. I totally get it, like, I get that she died or whatever.

John Green

#2. I have looked into the most philosophical systems and have found none that will not work without God.

James Clerk Maxwell

#3. The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#4. Look, I think maybe we've been hurt so often that even if someone harms us accidentally, we're blind to see it that way.

Kresley Cole

#5. I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#6. Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. the future wasn't something you planned for; it was something that just happened, like your car spinning out on some black ice and hitting a snowbank, or the telephone ringing with bad news in the middle of the night.

Wendy Lawless

#8. The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

Todd Stocker

#9. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

Moina Michael

#11. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Barack Obama

#12. See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

Johnny Tillotson

#13. "Dead upon the field of glory,"
Hero fit for song and story.

John R. Thompson

#14. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

Charles Sangster

#16. Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Silas Weir Mitchell