Quotes About The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

#1. 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.

Maya Lin

#2. I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

Dominique Moceanu

#3. When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Cornelia Funke

#5. Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You become what you continually think about.

Earl Nightingale

#7. You never say to a president for certain you wouldn't do anything, but I have no - look at me now - I have no desire to sit on the Supreme Court, none. It would be a great honor , but I have no desire, any more than George Mitchell did.

Joe Biden

#8. Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

John Locke

#9. 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.

Maya Lin

#10. When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Maya Lin

#12. From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

Darby Stanchfield

#13. I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Frances Wright

#14. With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.

Debasish Mridha