Remembrance Quotes - Page 16

• Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Adversity

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• The glamour
  Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  Down in the flood of remembrance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Maturity, Childhood

  'Piano' (1918)

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• the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life Is Too Short, Live In The Moment, Waste

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.283

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• Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

  Ben Jonson

  Mean, World, Strange

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.140

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• We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.

  George W. Bush

  Grief, Humor, Angel

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Memories

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• On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Humor, Political

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  Joanna Lumley

  Death Of A Loved One, Dying, Loss Of A Loved One

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• Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

  Ovid

  Past, Doe, Enjoy

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• It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Arrows, Joy, Affliction

  Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.357

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• No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Suffering, Sorrow, Misery

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• This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Discovery, Soul

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memorial Day, American Veterans, Clouds

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• With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Memorial Day, Land, Tears

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Jesus, Blessed, Greatness

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• Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

  Lucy Larcom

  Memorial Day, Liberty, Scales

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.131

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• The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Tests, Enjoyment, Behinds

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• Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Wings

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• The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

  Harold Nicolson

  War, Noble, Halos

  "Peacemaking, 1919".

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• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

  Rene Dubos

  Mean, Earth, Kind

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Summer, Pain

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Sweet, Past

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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