Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
Life had lost its value in northern Uganda because of this war.
No one can push me out of the BDP and anyone who wages a war against me shall lose!
We did not win the war, but we won the peace; the peace was Codesa.
If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.
I grew up, you know, in a generation of war novels and macho—Hemingway’s being the most prominent.
That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.