Memorial Villages

Famous quotes containing the words memorial and/or villages:

    When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.”
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)