Top 10 Best Quotations for Memorial Day

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!  ~Thomas William Parsons

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  ~From a headstone in Ireland

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.  ~Joseph Campbell

The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.  ~Randy Vader

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  ~Maya Angelou

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

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

They fell, but o'er their glorious graveFloats free the banner of the cause they died to save.~Francis Marion Crawford

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