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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 857
AUTHOR: Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–86)
QUOTATION: “A land without ruins is a land without memories—a 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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