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Quotes About Remembrance

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon
I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
~ Jane Austen
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
~ Isabel Allende
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
~ O. J. Simpson
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
One cannot remember mother and forget God.
~ Thomas S. Monson
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
~ Lillian Hellman
I miss my mother very, very much.
~ Paul Haggis
I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
~ Patsy Kensit
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
~ Patrick Stewart
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
~ Thomas A. Edison
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
~ George Santayana
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
~ Bruce Lee
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
~ Chris Cleave
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.
~ Ray Stevens
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
~ Pat Conroy
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
~ Ringo Starr
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
~ Jeff Buckley
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
~ Ramana Maharshi