Moina Michael quotes

Moina Michael quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.”
-- Moina Michael

#Memorial Day Quotes #Hero Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.”
“Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.”
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.”

Source : Charles Sangster, “Brock”
“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”
“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
“My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.”
“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
“The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.”

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