Quotes About Vietnam War Memorial

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

Harper Lee

#4. Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?

Jose Antonio Bowen

#5. The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#6. Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

Kano Jigoro

#7. For we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude
it's the chance to paint.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. 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

#9. People scared Petra - they were volatile, unpredictable. But the natural world could always be explained. It behaved according to established laws that didn't change. Petra could play by those rules.

Laura Bickle

#10. Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Michael Harner

#11. So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#12. I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

#13. This ring is a symbol of my faithfulness, it binds you to me, and my love shall hold you always.

Melissa De La Cruz

#14. 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

#15. The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

William Floyd

#16. When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I'll close my eyes and remember this. Remember Jackson.

Stacey Trombley

#17. Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.

George Orwell

#18. Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild.

Nikki Rowe

#19. Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

Lee Scott