#memoria

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #memoria




On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.


Danica Patrick


#across #came #car #conversation #cup

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.


Mark Twain


#country #deserves #government #patriotism #supporting

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.


Henry Waxman


#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.


Philip James Bailey


#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.


James A. Baldwin


#america #any #country #criticize #exactly

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


#authorized #center #congress #construction #educate

Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) I don't know how she did it. Fire She was shaking all over. It took her hours to put her make-up on. But she did it. Even the false eye-lashes. She ordered gin with triple limes. Then a limosine. Everyone knew she was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde. oh it isn't fair oh it isn't fair how her ermine hair turned men around she was white on white so blonde on blonde and her long long legs how I used to beg to dance with her but I never had a chance with her oh it isn't fair how her ermine hair used to swing so nice used to cut the air how all the men used to dance with her I never got a chance with her though I really asked her down deep where you do really dream in the mind reading love I'd get inside her move and we'd turn around and she'd turn around and turn the head of everyone in town her shaking shaking glittering bones second blonde child after brian jones oh it isn't fair how I dreamed of her and she slept and she slept forever and I'll never dance with her no never she broke down like a baby like a baby girl like a lady with ermine hair oh it isn't fair and I'd like to see her rise again her white white bones with baby brian jones baby brian jones like blushing baby dolls


Patti Smith


#in-memoriam #poem #poetry #poetry-quotes #tribute

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.


Sarah Vowell


#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.


Paracelsus


#artistic #artists #been #desired #dreams

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.


Bob Riley


#believed #i #long #patriotism #pinnacle