Lest We Forget Quotes

• They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

  Laurence Binyon

  Death, Morning, Years

  "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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• The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

  Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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• Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
  Lest we forget--lest we forget!

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Host, Forget

  "Recessional" st. 1 (1897)

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• Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Forget, Easy, Humane

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• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Revenge, Violence

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• Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Years, Remembrance, Age

  "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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• We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Doctors, Physicians

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• We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

  Julie Taymor

  Darkness, Who We Are, Forget

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Humble, Sacrifice

  "Recessional" st. 2 (1897)

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• Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.

  Alan Bennett

  War, People, Mourning

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• All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

  Eskinder Nega

  Moral, Forget, Wilderness

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• The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Devil, Kingdoms

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.

  David Bentley Hart

  Christian, Believe, Revolution

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• We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

  Abraham Verghese

  Lucky, Purpose, Common

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.10, Random House India

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• Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Firsts, Legends

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  Emily Dickinson

  Views, Giving, Forgive Me

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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