Forgotten Quotes - Page 20

• Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Half, Hunts

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.54

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• One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Philosophy, Men, Ideas

  "Whitewashing Black History Month" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.

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• We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Words Of Wisdom

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• Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Glimpse

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, New Year, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Taken

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• When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
  The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Beach, Religious

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• Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Children, Wall, Kids

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• I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Should Have, House

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.

  James Salter

  Past, Long, Important

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Eye, Secret

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• We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Serenity, Mindfulness

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

  William Safire

  Cat, Stories, Lines

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• What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Pleasure, Remorse

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• The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.

  Lee Bo-na

  Morning, Drama, Farewell

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• True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

  Shawn Mendes

  Friendship, Memories, True Friend

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• FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

  Stuart Symington

  Men, White, House

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• So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
  You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
  Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
  Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

  Elton John

  Song, Mean, Eye

  Song: Your Song, Album: Rocket Man

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• Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

  Gloria Gaither

  Children, Play, Broken

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• Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?

  David Abram

  Spring, Animal, Hands

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• The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

  Corazon Aquino

  Leadership, Women, Thinking

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• God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Giving, Waiting

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