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Quotes About Remember

The memories are so close I feel your presence everywhere. And I see forward so clearly and sadly to a time when the memories will be distant. I won't be able to picture your painting things scattered on a flat rock in Ammoudi or your bare feet soaking up the sunshine on Valia's garden wall. Now I see them. Long after that I will remember them.
~ brashares
The seer crow was outraged. Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig. Ambrose smiled cheekily. Good, then here's a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck.
~ Brian Jacques
Poetry is tribal not material. As such it lights the fire and keeps watch over the flame. Believe me, this is where you get warm again. And naked. This is where you can remember the good times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst, else you cannot be healed.
~ C.D. Wright
Always remember, others may hate you—but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
~ Carl Bernstein
It was the nature of things, of course. Life went on. The best you could do was to hold on to the memories that were important to you, so that even if everyone else forgot, you would remember.
~ Terry Brooks
Hostility to theory usually means an opposition to other people's theories and an oblivion of one's own. One purpose of this book is to lift that repression and allow us to remember.
~ Terry Eagleton
Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is "Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We're-About-To-Commit-Today! And So On! Hurrah!
~ Terry Pratchett
It was eight in the morning, a time when drinkers are trying either to forget who they are or remember where they live.
~ Terry Pratchett
What I know in my bones is that I forgot to take time to remember what I know. The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Miniature rock murals are everywhere. Who were these artists, these scribes? When were they here? And what did they witness? Time has so little meaning in the center of the desert. The land holds a collective memory in the stillness of open spaces. Perhaps our only obligation is to listen and remember.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
That evening when my destiny changed is a tattoo needled into my soul. I shall never forget it.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
I always say, to this day, that the Air Jordan guy was great and God bless him. But I'll always just remember Michael, the guy.
~ B. J. Armstrong
I just love music in general. I've been a fan of all different kinds of music since I can remember.
~ Ray Stevens
I collect bits of conversation about Mr. Dupree. If I add everything together, it all amounts to one thing: When you hear how people talk about a man after he's dead, you want to live an interesting life, give them a reason to say, 'I miss that person.
~ Karen Harrington
I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can, and am. 'Tis a dying man's last request," he said roughly. "I want you to remember me as a man, lass, as your man. Not as a prisoner of Dark Magycks. I doona want you to watch me die. Promise me you won't, Jessica. Promise me and mean it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future." "And if we are killed?" "Then others must remember us .
~ Kate Atkinson
He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What can I do but force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence that when I open my eyes and look down at my new hands with their thumbs that are able to close tightly around their fingers, I will already know. I will already see.
~ Garth Stein
Memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
~ Garth Stein
What can I do to force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence.
~ Garth Stein
memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In
~ Garth Stein