Quotes About Remembrance

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

Putting money into a cenotaph is not really worth it.

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.

That will be on my tombstone: He lived five minutes away from Flying Lotus.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

'You Should Be Here' set the tone that, 'Alright everybody, I want you to listen to this album.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things.