Quotes About Remembrance

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses, those in possession of the unspeakable truth are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.

we become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear.

Molte cose furono allora fra noi dette e fatte; ma di queste è bene che non resti memoria.

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens . . . for one thousand Hells.

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. Heartbroken

No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery.

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

Mark this well: the brave never die, for we remember.

Dead doesn't mean gone.

One out of three." He spoke quietly but with an intensity she instantly feared. "One out of every three Jews in the world. In my country, in Poland, nine out of every ten of us died.

You name a country, and I'll tell you about a time it became obsessed with killing Jews.

This was before the Nazis settled on a more efficient method—machine-gunning Jews into the Babi Yar canyon, thirty thousand in two days.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

our Janice is gone, but you're still here, and your first allegiance should never be to the dead.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe, "Lenore

When a society erases its past, for whatever reason," she said, "it cannot have a future.

Once you've loved someone, the love is always there, even after they're gone.

memory serves her, that was the month that Tanner Walsh died.

Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.

I miss him, even now. I know you do. That's the price we pay when we love. It's joy and loss all wrapped up in one package. The thing you need to hold onto is that while the heart may shatter into a thousand pieces, the soul remains intact.

I once read that during the Civil War women of the south would soak these cloth buttons in perfume and then sew them into the collars of their men's shirts. That way the scent was a constant reminder of their loved ones waiting for them at home.

You will find that the past is still very much alive down here.