Veterans Memorial Sayings

#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 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. The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom.

Michelle Franklin

#4. Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

Stephen Dorff

#5. I'm famous for being a silky midfielder.

Phil Daniels

#6. The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

Guy Maddin

#7. It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

George Woolf

#8. On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

Barack Obama

#9. President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a special tribute to World War II veterans of the Pacific. They each downed two kamikazes.

Argus Hamilton

#10. 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

#11. Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected - for better and for worse, sometimes barely tolerated and sometimes arranged into lovely patterns.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#12. They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Richard Watson Gilder

#14. But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

Thomas Dunn English

#15. The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Jeff Miller

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

Todd Stocker

#17. The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.

Walter Kirn

#18. But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled."

Philip Freneau

#19. Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#20. It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Godfrey Saxe

#21. Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Plutarch