Remembered Quotes - Page 28

• It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

  Potter Stewart

  Constitution, Unreasonable, Seizures

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

  John Major

  Forever, Actors, Comic

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• I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Lakes, Scent

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• You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Sex, Memories, Heart

  "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.

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• I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, World, Want

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• I want to be remembered for my dreams.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Dream, Want

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• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  Lara Stone

  Years, Want, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Book, Differences, People

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• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Thinking, Eight, Tree

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.210, Penguin

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• I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Want, Stood Up

  "‘Malala is a Miracle’: A Friend’s Tribute to Clinton Global Citizen Award Recipient Malala Yousafzai" by Shiza Shahid, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2013.

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• First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Want, Firsts, Enough

  "Station Eleven: A novel". Book by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.

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• I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate.

  Steve Nash

  Teammate, Want, Competitors

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• I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

  Goose Gossage

  Jobs, Way

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• The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Warhol

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• A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

  Robert Breault

  Vacation, Aggravation, Two

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Past

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “Flights of Love”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

  John P. Kotter

  Drama, Ideas, Brain

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• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

  Phillip Noyce

  People, Littles, Towns

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• When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Sky, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

  Zach Sobiech

  Life, Kids, Fighting

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• We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

  Pat Conroy

  Inspirational, Basketball, Athlete

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• I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Guts

  "Passage: Shirley Chisholm, 80", www.wired.com. January 3, 2005.

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• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Want, Firsts

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