Helen Keller - So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Elie Wisel - Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future.
Adlai Stevenson - “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
Bob Riley - “I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”
Nick Lampson - “There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.”
Will Carleton - “Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead.”
Jeff Miller - The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.”
Nathan Hale - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
William J. Clinton - “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
Charles E. Jefferson - A man is a patriot if his heart beats true to his country.
John Adams - “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”
Thomas Campbell - The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.
Barack Obama - While the nature of war has changed...the values that drive our brave men and women in uniform remain constant: honor, courage, selflessness.
Elmer Davis - This nation will remain the land of the only so long as it is the home of the brave.
John Adams - Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
Lou Holtz - "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Bertrand Russell - "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Eleanor Roosevelt - "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
Edmund Burke - "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Ernest Holmes - "Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
John Wooden - "All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."
Josh Billings - "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Leonardo da Vinci - "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
Corita Kent - "Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed."
Mignon McLaughlin - For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Jean Ingelow - A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jerry Seinfeld - "To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving."
Alexis Carrel - Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Robert Hall - We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Edward Fitzgerald - The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Horace Walpole - "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
Jack Kerouac - "Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
Morihei Ueshiba - "Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
Sydney J. Harris - "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
Havelock Ellis - "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Bob Marley - "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Horace - "Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
Jose Ortega y Gasset - Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Samuel Butler - Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
O. Henry - Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Gilbert K. Chesterton - The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Henry Miller - The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Zhuangzi - Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Laurence Sterne - I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Saint Augustine - If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
William Christopher Handy - Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
Charles M. Schulz - I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Truman Capote - Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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