Quotes About Remembrance

If he'd forgotten that shy twelve-year-old whose heart he'd broken, well, she'd be happy to remind him.

If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it come to pass towards thee, O man, that since thou, which art God's work, doest him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing service, even thine own works also should reward thee with the like fruit of bitterness.

Around the holidays, reach out to people you don't get to see to let them know you're thinking about them.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have lilacs in my home.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.

Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. —Philippians 1:3

See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. —Isaiah 49:16

with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and douglas haig as our contemporary

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

What has been done, thought, written, or spoken is not culture; culture is only that fraction which is remembered.

We meet and love, someone builds a tomb for us, perhaps. It does not matter—someone else will rob it, and the winds puff away our dust; then we shall be forgotten.

The heart remembers even when no trace of face or voice remains.

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war — which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell — seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively.

The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.

denn das Wachstum des Guten in der Welt hängt in gewissem Grade von unhistorischen Taten ab, und daß die Dinge für dich und mich nicht so schlecht bestellt sind, wie sie es hätten sein können, verdanken wir zum großen Teil jenen, die getreulich ein Leben im verborgenen gelebt haben und in Gräbern ruhen, die niemand besucht.

That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.