Quotes About Remembrance

I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

White Americans have a short memory.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

My memory's bad!

My memory's pretty much gone.

I have a terrible memory.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families.

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.