Quotes About Remembrance

I think about my mom every day.

I miss my mom and dad. They brought me into this world and I wish they were with me on my birthday. So I don't celebrate it much.

I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Whether it's Memorial Day or any other holiday, music has the power to set any mood and build long-lasting memories.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's not forget, people with disability.

A gracious friend from us is gone, A voice we loved is fled, But faith and memory lead us on: He lives; he is not dead.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows. It is for you to try to be like them. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

the most splendid of sepulchres – not the sepulchre in which their bodies are laid, but where their glory remains eternal in men's minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action. For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows.

To be hated and to cause pain is, at present, the reality for anyone who takes on the rule of others, and anyone who makes himself hated for matters of great consequence has made the right decision; for hatred does not last long, but the momentary brilliance of great actions lives on as a glory that will be remembered forever after. - Pericles

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak.

Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha's letters. Then he burned the two photographs.

Jacky couldn't help barking out one syllable of a laugh. "Not noddle, dottle. The ash from a clay pipe of his." She pointed at the glass vial. "Ceneromancy, it's called. Magic you do with ashes. It's kept him near me, since…since he was killed.

so she stays there remembering the warmth of honey between her toes, with her blood not humming, with the sound of the name almost always coming to her.

For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone. —

I did not refer to the legends themselves," Thrawn said, turning his glowing eyes on her. "But what is remembered says a great deal about those doing the remembering.

Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.

The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...