Remembrance Quotes - Page 11

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

  Robert Reich

  Memorial Day, America, Burden

  Robert Reich (2017). “Economics in Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone Mad and Mean”, p.50, Fantagraphics Books

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Past, Feelings, Melancholy

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• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, War, Lying

  More Poems (1936) no. 36

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• Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Unfinished Work, Long, Honor

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

  Michael N. Castle

  Country, Memorial Day, Hero

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• By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Past, Laughing, Trouble

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Lying, Secret, Redemption

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.60, Routledge

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• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, War, Call Of Duty

  H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

  Tove Jansson

  Block, Spring, Rocks

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• A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Knowing, Luck, Dollars

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Iron, Sight, Self

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.127

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• Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

  Maxim Gorky

  Past, Energy, Hope For The Future

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Creatures That Once Were Men”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  Madame de Stael

  Happiness, Sweet, Nature

  "A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness" collected and translated by J. D. Finod, (p. 138), 1880.

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• He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.278

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• When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

  Julia Kristeva

  Memories, Thinking, Sky

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• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Past, Silent

  Sonnet 30

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• Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Names, Immortality

  "Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

  Philip James Bailey

  Memorial Day, Military, Animal

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.213

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• And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Inspiring, Country, Memorial Day

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