Quotes About Remembrance

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

We take things to remind us of home. I think my favourite is a stuffed dog that was homemade from a picture of my little Jack Russell terrier.

It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much... stones to remembrance. And it's like there's constant stones of remembrance of what God has done.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

The man placed my mother on the counter. I'd selected an urn that could easily be confused for a Chinese vase, but I no longer appreciated that. When I saw it now I thought, This thing is so ugly, and if I screw off the top I will hear my mother scream.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Worlds that have died and will never return still live on in my memories, and that truly is a marvel.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

"In the days of my youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.

That is, unfortunately, true, Galaxy Commander Howell." Horse stepped forward boldly and flattened his palms on Howell's desk as he leaned across toward the other man. "But, whether you know it or not, I have won a place in the Remembrance. How many lines do you have in the Smoke Jaguar Remembrance, Galaxy Commander?

Their hands bathed in purifying water, the family members gathered up the calcined bones in the folds of their black garments, then sprinkled them with wine and milk, dried them with fine linen before enclosing them in a marble urn (Tib., 3, 2, 16-22). In memory of the time when burial was performed, a finger severed before the body was burnt was buried separately, and a handful of earth was thrown three times on this os resectum.

El olvido es el hijo consentido de la historia y el alero bajo el cual palpita la convivencia.

Los poetas mexicanos (supongo que los poetas en general) detestan que se les recuerde su ignorancia.

Soñé que en un cementerio olvidado de áfrica encontraba la tumba de un amigo cuyo rostro ya no podía recordar.

In any case, on the wall of Juan Stein's house, there hung a rather ornately framed portrait of Chernyakhovsky, and that, I dare say, incommensurably more important than the busts and the cities named after him and the countless Chernyakhovsky Streets, full of potholes, scattered through the Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania and Russia. I don't know why I've kept the photo, Stein said to us.

Una persona che amiamo resta sempre con noi, – disse. – Per tutta la vita, capisci?

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.