Quotes About Remembrance

People have short memories, he said, especially when bad things are concerned. People tend to forget, he said, but you won't forget.

But again and again that night there came to him Meg's white, still face as it lay on the scarlet cushions, and he knew the wind that stirred the curtains at the window had been playing with the long grass in the churchyard a few minutes since.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.*

The day before yesterday, as I was calmly reading ... I saw a reduced vision of my son Yuri's face, but dead, in a horizontal position, his eyes closed.

In a way one is reminded of the pretty little birdhouses for the starlings set out by the tenderhearted butchers in the Auschwitz barracks.)

A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Recuerdo la nocturna procesión de niños y más niños, tan asustados, tan callados, tan bonitos. Si pudiéramos ver tan solo a uno de ellos se nos partiría el alma. En cambio a los asesinos no se les partió el alma. Más duro, sin embargo, es haberlo vivido.

Many returned after the war to reap the gruesome rewards of what has been called a 'golden harvest', digging up the remains of the victims and sifting through the ash and bones to find any gold teeth or valuable materials that had been overlooked when their bodies and possessions had first been looted by the Nazis.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.

I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.

At the end of the day, when Charlie Murphy ain't here no more, I'll have a body of work that people can laugh and remember me by.

I don't go by the screen time. Even if I have one or two scenes, it is essential that people remember me.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

When I'm finished doing music or whatever, I want people to remember me as just being great.

You will remember me as a little child in another time, during another war, and involving another airplane.