Quotes About Remembrance

I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.

It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and one week after everyone forgets that.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.

Once I remember shouting, 'Mum, can I get a pound for an ice cream?' and she said, 'I haven't got a pound, Kyle.' People take so much for granted, but I will never forget that.

If you remember your ancestors, they can cross over and be with you again.

Dallas McCarver is my angel. Not a day goes by where I don't think of him.

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon.

Carlos comes back with our drinks. "What should we drink to?" "To love," says Brigitte. "To the few loyal customers I have left," says Carlos. I have to think for a minute. "To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon." Everyone in the bar drinks to that.

But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

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