Quotes About Remembrance

For me, as for our entire Agency family, the 129 stars on CIA's Memorial Wall are more than just symbols. They are solemn reminders of friends and colleagues who answered their nation's call, and who willingly risked their lives to protect us all.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he's had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.

Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck - it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.

the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

because we were in love with the same dead girl.

Well, I think it's beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.

We have to tell our stories—in literature, film, theater, and other media—but we must also manifest cultural memory in communal deeds—in mourning and in celebration, in solemn remembrance and festal joy.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the 'liberty of Hellas

Andy also skipped his wife's private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.

Let those who boast of present sinful joys remember what shall be in the future and take warning.