Quotes About Remembrance

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was hard when I started folding up some of his sweaters that I so imagine him wearing.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

Juneteenth has always been a symbol of freedom deferred.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Jewish Americans weren't just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success.

I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Because I liked you better than it suits a girl to say, It irked you and I promised to throw the thought away To put the world between us, we parted stiff and dry 'Goodbye' and you: 'Forget me'. 'No fear I will' said I. Now here where clover whitens The dead man's knoll you pass And now tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass Halt by the headstone naming the heart no longer stirred And say the girl that loved you Was one who kept her word.