Quotes About Remembrance

I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. In this act of ancestral remembrance and acceptance may be found a light by which to see our children safely home.

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

If you stick around long enough you're either forgotten or remembered too much.

Los muertos se olvidan. Lo cual no quiere decir que no se lloren sincera y hondamente durante algún tiempo

Some men still haven't come home from this war. And some men never will.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those who had gone on did not need them

Gettysburg is at risk of becoming a place of war worship. In our desperation to perceive valor and courage that may not be present in our own lives, we glorify a terrible slaughter of men and boys. The myth that war propagates and that our national memory perpetuates is that all soldiers are valiant and brave, and that American history is a history victorious instead of shadowed and scarred.

Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul.

what she did believe in was the power of remembrance. Only the forgotten are truly dead.

I did not attend her anniversary gathering. I knew it would not bring her back. I didn't want to remember anymore. It was too painful. The

Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them.

I've been celebrating the Day of the Dead since I was 6 years old because my grandfather passed away back then. The Day of the Dead was just a wonderful and joyful celebration where I can be with him and connect with him again.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

Huge Kobe fan growing up. My dog's name is Kobe.

I remember everything.

Whatever is lost stays alive if we remember it.

I told you I wouldn't forget you...and as I'm sure you remember, the black rose is you.

At the door Queen Phillipa turned slowly back. "Love," she repeated, her face suddenly gone girlishly soft before it turned to pale marble again. "Love fades, poor Joan, and then there is only duty and remembrance.