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Quotes About Remembrance

La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino.
~ Isabel Allende
Lo que se olvida es como si nunca hubiera sucedido
~ Isabel Allende
Así te recuerdo, en calma
~ Isabel Allende
I said goodbye, kissed her, and asked her forgiveness for the sins of withholding and neglect. I thanked her for having existed, promised her that she would live on in my heart, and in her son's, begged her not to leave me, to visit me in dreams, to send me signs and clues, to return incarnated in every beautiful young woman I saw on the street, and to appear to me in spirit during the darkest hours of the night and in the days of the midday Sun.
~ Isabel Allende
I go, but I always remember you.
~ Isabel Allende
Al final, lo único que tenemos a plenitud es la memoria que hemos tejido.
~ Isabel Allende
Desde entonces la gente lo recuerda como Juan del Pedo.
~ Isabel Allende
Many years later, standing before a human head preserved in a jar of gin, Eliza would remember that first meeting with Joaquín Andieta and again experience the same unbearable anguish.
~ Isabel Allende
Mi abuela escribía en sus cuadernos para salvar los fragmentos evasivos de los días y engañar a la mala memoria.
~ Isabel Allende
The day we arrived in Auschwitz, there were so many people to be burned that the four crematoriums couldn't handle the task. So the Germans built big open fires to throw the children in.
~ Isabella Leitner
Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.
~ Brad Paisley
I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on 'Ground Zero' is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.
~ David Shuster
I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I will always think of him, and I know that Daddy made this zoo so everyone could come and learn to love all the animals.
~ Bindi Irwin
It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
~ Mary Lamb
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
~ Ben Jonson
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
~ Julius Caesar
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
~ Rupert Brooke
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
~ William Osier
And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.
~ Marco Carson
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
~ John McCrae
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
~ Thomas a Kempis
What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.
~ Paul LePage
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
~ Paul Eldridge
The tune 'All My Friends,' we recorded because our friend who wrote the song, Scott Boyer, passed way, and Gregg Allman had passed and he had recorded the song on his first solo record.
~ Derek Trucks