Quotes About Vietnam Memorial

#1. When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

William Westmoreland

#2. 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

#3. The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

William Westmoreland

#4. In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

Dennis Cardoza

#5. So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal ... The wings are knocking people over ...

Steven Wright

#6. My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

Tom Stoppard

#7. As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I'm a Juicy girl.
"I bet you are," he murmured.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. I just didn't like going to school.

Justin Long

#9. The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike.

T. B. Joshua

#10. 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

#11. If you see your activities and situation originally, you will be able to originally see your goals as well. If you can look with fresh eyes, as though for the first time, you will see yourself doing things that you would never dream of doing if they were not habits.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#12. If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase)

Timothy Keller

#13. The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

Adrienne Rich

#14. Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

Lilith Saintcrow

#15. To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. In some ways blowjobs are better than sex because when you have a mouthful of cock you can't make snide comments.

Nenia Campbell

#17. Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#18. 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