Quotes About Remembrance

From the beginning, bread was shared around a table—a table of working together, a table of living together, a table of vulnerability, a table of sacrifice, a table of thanksgiving. God set this table for the Israelites in the wilderness so they remember their deliverance. Christ set this table for the disciples in the upper room so we remember his sacrifice.

La guerra no es una aberración, algo que es mejor olvidar lo antes posible.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

And these children will never talk of anything else either. They'll think it was wonderful and glorious to fight the Yankees and come home blind and crippled—or not come home at all. They all like to remember the war, to talk about it. But I don't. I don't even like to think about it. I'd forget it all if I could—oh, if I only could!

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Reynolds was thirty-three and healthy and beautiful when she died on December 16, 1998.

When this you see, remember me, And bear me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may. Speak of me as you find Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Elizabeth Diane Downs, 1983