Memorable Quotes for Memorial Day

Find extra meaning in this Memorial Day with immortal words from some of the world's top authors, poets, and thinkers, courtesy of FireHorse Rescue Kits and Equinium Sports Marketing.

Happy Memorial Day

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men," - Minot J. 

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die," - Thomas Campbell 

"The wind is us ― it gathers and remembers all our voices, then send them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields." ― Truman Capote

"Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.” — John Milton, “Paradise Lost”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”― Thomas Campbell

Mounted police units at the Kentucky Horse Park (Photo courtesy of The Kentucky Horse Park)

Arlington National Cemetery (Photo by Equinium Sports Marketing)

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"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” — Arthur Ashe

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." - Bob Dylan 

"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." — Theodore Roosevelt

"The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree." — Thomas Campbell

“The brave may fall, but never yield.” — Author Unknown 

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”― Thomas Campbell

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”― Antonio Porchia