Quotes About Remembrance

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky

RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...

The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

I don't think I will ever be erased from people's memory as I like to believe the work I do leaves an impact on people.

Your legacy makes a difference.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm much more of a legacy. All things considered, I'd rather be a legacy.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

You want to be able to look back and feel you were part of Liverpool's great history - win something here, and they will always remember you.

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

That's something I always say is good to do in life, is to leave our mark in this lifetime.

The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10 percent remain.

30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90 percent of the Orthodox community perished

Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90 percent of the Orthodox community perished, among them many who had kept alive an ancient tradition of mysticism and meditation reaching back to the Old Testament world of the prophets.

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.