Quotes About Remembered

You've got me confused with some kind of saint, Noreen. The kind who's OK with being martyred as long as his halo's straight in the photograph. If I'm going to throw myself to the lions, I want it to mean a lot more than just being remembered in some milkmaid's prayers on a Sunday morning. I never was a man for a useless gesture.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

I remembered the old doctor,—'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

It is richly ironic that one of the few original intentions they all shared was opposition to any judicial doctrine of "original intent." To be sure, they all wished to be remembered, but they did not want to be embalmed.

This difference over memory parallels the way Jesus is remembered and discussed today.

Others argue that Jesus' presence and teaching were so powerful that they were well remembered by people who were used to passing on teaching orally. In many ways, this book is about that debate. It is a debate that rages in our culture as people speak about who Jesus was and what he taught.

To slip into an abyss. The abyss. He couldn't deny it anymore. His mind...jittered, now it quaked. The bloody thing had the bloody palsy. Keeping his thoughts still amongst all that squishy commotion had become tougher with every passing hour of every passing day. His hold on reality was loosening, in both there here and now and in that beautiful, painful, remembered past, loosening with each hour that ticked on by with no remorse.

If I am ever to be remembered," Johnson wistfully told me, "it will be for civil rights.

history that everyone remembers. The moon landing. The day Kennedy was shot. The night the United States elected its first African-American president. The day the towers came down.

Death is the meaning of life, the race against oblivion; man being the only animal who is conscious that he will one day die; there lies the seed of self-destruction, greed for more, even if only to be remembered a short time longer than others, as if it mattered to the other walking dead.

Better to live in the ruins of empire, I thought, and stand a hope of being remembered, than to be lost in those golden multitudes.

Yes, Ardwin remembered. This is the way swans like to travel. A tailwind can make even the longest and riskiest flight possible. It was a good sign.

will be remembered also for the great interest he took and the trouble he took over the question of Hindu law reform.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world . . . and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. . . . all imaginative, engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.

That was how it was with abusive parents. They only remembered the good times and you only remembered the bad.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

I want to be remembered as a man who was positive, who made a difference, and who walked in God's light.

Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.