Quotes About Memory

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Grass grows at last above all graves.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.