Remembrance Quotes - Page 15

• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Birthday, Redneck, College

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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

  Robert Runcie

  Loyalty, Spring, War

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• As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Past, Men, Genius

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.114, Рипол Классик

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• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Martyr

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• We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

  James Martineau

  Hands, Faithful, Secret

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sweet, Blessing, Joy

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Years, Slumber

  Immanuel Kant (2002). “Theoretical Philosophy after 1781”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

  Tod Papageorge

  Fiction, Surprise, Moments

  "Winogrand's Theater Of Quick Takes" by Tod Papageorge, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 1977.

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• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Pills, Birth Control

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• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Fall, Rain

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• Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

  Alphonse Karr

  Sweet, Water, Brain

  Alphonse Karr, Rev. J. Wood (1855). “A Tour Round My Garden”, p.135

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• Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

  Leslie What

  Memories, Our World, Ghost

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• We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Giving, Together, Pieces

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

  Kent Nerburn

  Healing, Sadness, Joy

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.110, New World Library

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• Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Kindness, Passing Away

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• Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Healing, Adversity, Knows

  Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated

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• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

  Epes Sargent

  Bird, Soul, Cages

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.

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• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memories, Powerful, Reality

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

  E. C. Bentley

  Heart, Home, Past

  "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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• Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Flower, Earth, Youth

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• I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Leaving, Quitting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Funeral, Fame, Wit

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• Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Desire, Remember

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• It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

  Mary Lamb

  Talking, Advice, Friendly

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1905). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1834”

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