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Quotes About Remembered

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
~ William Morris
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.
~ William Shakespeare
If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
~ Winifred Gallagher
Beauty gathered in the brightness of the sunny hours - is often best remembered in the quiet dark.
~ Winston O. Abbott
You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
~ Abhijit Naskar
There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.
~ Kartik Mehta
This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.
~ Alice McDermott
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!
~ Alice McDermott
You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
~ Rick Warren
While Morgan-who died in 1890 after falling off his horse-drawn carriage near the Italian border-must be remembered for laying the foundation for the House of Morgan
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
daytime brief, gloomy, the sun rarely out, and then only to make a cameo appearance before it vanished. He remembered
~ Khaled Hosseini
His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
~ Kristen Iversen
If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.
~ Emily Bronte
Twas my one glory - Let it be Remembered I was owned of Thee.
~ Emily Dickinson
T]hose most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all. Safe from fire or floods or war. In stories. Stories remembered, until they are ready to be told. Or perhaps simply ready to be heard.
~ Aminatta Forna
A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
~ Richard Rodgers
My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
~ James Dobson
We made 'Baahubali' with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.
~ Prabhas
You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
~ Rick Warren
Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist, but ripeness comes as well. From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench there comes a violent love.
~ Aeschylus
He seemed to fade pretty quickly. He found himself yearning to know of their affairs, their successes, the novels and the new ideas that the few who remembered him might say he never knew, he never lived to find out.
~ Alan Hollinghurst