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Quotes About Remembrance

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
~ Aristophanes
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
~ Aristotle
The day after tomorrow you'll say that only the day before you saw someone who no longer exists. He stays in your memory for a split second and then vanishes.
~ Arnošt Lustig
Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.
~ Art Spiegelman
People will forget me pretty quick.
~ Tom Landry
It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.
~ Prince William
I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
~ Ed Greenwood
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
~ Jon Corzine
I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.
~ Tom Morello
To this day, I am saddened by Ranger Tillman's death, as I am for the loss of every service member I served with, and for the pain such losses cause each family.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.
~ Richard Cohen
We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.
~ Angela Merkel
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
~ Robert Ballard
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
God bless my mother; I know you're looking down on me.
~ Ron Cephas Jones
May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family.
~ Bobby Rush
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
~ Tom Waits
It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.
~ Sarah Vaughan
I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
~ Franz Wright
Every hour is another syllable in your epitaph.
~ Fred Chappell
When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.
~ Frederick Buechner
I have forgotten my umbrella.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went—another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns—I wouldn't find her.
~ Gail Carson Levine