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Class of ‘08, ‘07, & ‘81
© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008
Education does run in the family, and with graduation season upon, I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate my baby brother who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia this past Sunday.
University of Virginia, Class of 2008
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
~William Arthur Ward
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~Henry Ford
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” 1992
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
~Doug Larson
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
~Andy McIntyre
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~A.A. Milne
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
~Fred Dehner
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Henry Ford
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
~Susan B. Anthony
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~Roger Babson
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
~Arnold H. Glasow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
Education is the best provision for old age.
~Aristotle
Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
~William Lyon Phelps
My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
~Jim Fox
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
~Joann C. Jones
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson
Saint Leo University, Class of 2007
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
~Newton D. Baker
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B.F. Skinner
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” 1890
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
~Les Brown
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Attributed to Mark Twain
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.
~Author Unknown
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
~A. Lawrence Lowell
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
~Carly Fiorina
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~Fred Allen
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
~John Updike
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
~Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~e.e. cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
~Euripides
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~Dr. Seuss
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
~Author Unknown
A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
~W.H. Auden
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
~Russell Green
Howard University, Class of 1981
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
~Henry Ford
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.
~Robert Orben
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
~Richard Halliburton
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
~Orrin Hatch
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
~Gary Bolding
The tassel’s worth the hassle!
~Author Unknown
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
~Author Unknown
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
~Arie Pencovici
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
~Paul Freund
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
~Erma Bombeck
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~Theodore Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~Garry Trudeau
[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
~Woody Allen, “My Speech to the Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980
People will frighten you about a graduation…. They use words you don’t hear often: “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~Bill Cosby
The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
~Author Unknown
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
~Author Unknown
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
~Wendy Wasserstein
I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
~Author Unknown
Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
~Louisa May Alcott
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
~Isabel Waxman
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~Harold Geneen
Put your future in good hands - your own.
~Author Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Education does run in the family, and with graduation season upon, I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate my baby brother who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia this past Sunday.
University of Virginia, Class of 2008
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
~William Arthur Ward
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~Henry Ford
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” 1992
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
~Doug Larson
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
~Andy McIntyre
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~A.A. Milne
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
~Fred Dehner
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Henry Ford
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
~Susan B. Anthony
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~Roger Babson
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
~Arnold H. Glasow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
Education is the best provision for old age.
~Aristotle
Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
~William Lyon Phelps
My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
~Jim Fox
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
~Joann C. Jones
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson
Saint Leo University, Class of 2007
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
~Newton D. Baker
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B.F. Skinner
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” 1890
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
~Les Brown
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Attributed to Mark Twain
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.
~Author Unknown
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
~A. Lawrence Lowell
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
~Carly Fiorina
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~Fred Allen
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
~John Updike
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
~Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~e.e. cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
~Euripides
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~Dr. Seuss
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
~Author Unknown
A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
~W.H. Auden
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
~Russell Green
Howard University, Class of 1981
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
~Henry Ford
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.
~Robert Orben
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
~Richard Halliburton
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
~Orrin Hatch
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
~Gary Bolding
The tassel’s worth the hassle!
~Author Unknown
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
~Author Unknown
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
~Arie Pencovici
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
~Paul Freund
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
~Erma Bombeck
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~Theodore Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~Garry Trudeau
[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
~Woody Allen, “My Speech to the Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980
People will frighten you about a graduation…. They use words you don’t hear often: “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~Bill Cosby
The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
~Author Unknown
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
~Author Unknown
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
~Wendy Wasserstein
I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
~Author Unknown
Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
~Louisa May Alcott
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
~Isabel Waxman
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~Harold Geneen
Put your future in good hands - your own.
~Author Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008
The History
Memorial (Decoration) Day is set aside to commemorate the sacrifices of the brave men and women in uniform, so to our brave service members past and present, especially my cousin Lt. Saibatu (Tutu) Mansaray bravely serving Iraq, thank you for your sacrifices and come home safely, soon.
They fell, but o’er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~Francis Marion Crawford
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~ Taken from a headstone in Ireland
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
~ Rupert Brooke
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~ Lee Greenwood
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth…
~Thomas Moore
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
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
~ Joseph Drake
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.
~ W.J. Cameron
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
~ Thomas William Parsons
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
~ Daniel Webster
With the tears a Land hath shed
Their graves should ever be green.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.
~ James Gates Percival
Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?
He’s dead alone who lacks her light!
~ Thomas Campbell
For love of country they accepted death…
~ James A. Garfield
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country’s wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow’d mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.
~ William Collins
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
~ Thomas Campbell
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
~ Wilfred Wilson Gibson
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~ Joseph Campbell
Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
The glory theirs, the duty ours.
~ Wallace Bruce
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
~ Benjamin Harrison
Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day
Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
Give them the meed they have won in the past;
Give them the honors their future forcast;
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
~ Will Carleton
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
~ Lucy Larcom
All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~ Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature’s kind, fostering care,
Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, -
And peace broods perennial there.
~ John H. Jewett
These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen.
~ William Woodman
Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.
~ John LeGay Brereton
The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.
~ Aaron Kilbourn
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead!
Laurels and roses on their graves to-day,
Lilies and laurels over them we lay,
And violets o’er each unforgotten head.
~ Richard Hovey
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
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~ John A. Logan
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
~ Randy Vader
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~ William Penn
Ah! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
~ William Cullen Bryant
“Dead upon the field of glory,”
Hero fit for song and story.
~ John Randolph Thompason
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause
Of justice absolute ‘twixt man and man.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
Fold him in his country’s stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
~ George Henry Boker
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat!
But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red,
The starry lives that keep its field alight.
~ Rupert Hughes
The hero dead cannot expire:
The dead still play their part.
~ Charles Sangster
We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
~ Francis A. Walker
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas, how can we help but mourn
When hero bosoms yield their breath!
A century itself may bear
But once the flower of such a death.
~ S. Weir Mitchell
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
~ Schuyler Colfax
They saw their injured country’s woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
~ Philip Freneau
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The History
Memorial (Decoration) Day is set aside to commemorate the sacrifices of the brave men and women in uniform, so to our brave service members past and present, especially my cousin Lt. Saibatu (Tutu) Mansaray bravely serving Iraq, thank you for your sacrifices and come home safely, soon.
They fell, but o’er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~Francis Marion Crawford
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~ Taken from a headstone in Ireland
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
~ Rupert Brooke
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~ Lee Greenwood
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth…
~Thomas Moore
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
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
~ Joseph Drake
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.
~ W.J. Cameron
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
~ Thomas William Parsons
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
~ Daniel Webster
With the tears a Land hath shed
Their graves should ever be green.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.
~ James Gates Percival
Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?
He’s dead alone who lacks her light!
~ Thomas Campbell
For love of country they accepted death…
~ James A. Garfield
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country’s wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow’d mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.
~ William Collins
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
~ Thomas Campbell
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
~ Wilfred Wilson Gibson
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~ Joseph Campbell
Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
The glory theirs, the duty ours.
~ Wallace Bruce
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
~ Benjamin Harrison
Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day
Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
Give them the meed they have won in the past;
Give them the honors their future forcast;
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
~ Will Carleton
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
~ Lucy Larcom
All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~ Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature’s kind, fostering care,
Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, -
And peace broods perennial there.
~ John H. Jewett
These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen.
~ William Woodman
Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.
~ John LeGay Brereton
The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.
~ Aaron Kilbourn
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead!
Laurels and roses on their graves to-day,
Lilies and laurels over them we lay,
And violets o’er each unforgotten head.
~ Richard Hovey
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
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~ John A. Logan
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
~ Randy Vader
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~ William Penn
Ah! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
~ William Cullen Bryant
“Dead upon the field of glory,”
Hero fit for song and story.
~ John Randolph Thompason
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause
Of justice absolute ‘twixt man and man.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
Fold him in his country’s stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
~ George Henry Boker
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat!
But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red,
The starry lives that keep its field alight.
~ Rupert Hughes
The hero dead cannot expire:
The dead still play their part.
~ Charles Sangster
We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
~ Francis A. Walker
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas, how can we help but mourn
When hero bosoms yield their breath!
A century itself may bear
But once the flower of such a death.
~ S. Weir Mitchell
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
~ Schuyler Colfax
They saw their injured country’s woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
~ Philip Freneau
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