| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 857 |
| AUTHOR: | Abram Joseph Ryan (183886) |
| QUOTATION: | A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN, A Land Without Ruins, Preface quoting an unnamed source.Edd Winfield Parks, Southern Poets, p. 165 (1936).
Father Ryan was a chaplain in the Civil War. |
| SUBJECTS: | History | | |
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