Remembrance Quotes - Page 14

• You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

  Amy Tan

  Heart, Remember You, Remembers You

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin

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• In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Dance, Prayer, Past

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.220, Delacorte Press

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Heroism, Faces

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.62, Northwestern University Press

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• Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
  In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
  And with remembrance of the greater grief
  To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Freedom, Grief, Relief

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics

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• I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the truth, they have come to terms with the injustices of the past, there are memorial centers and remembrance projects. Germany is my spiritual home.

  Liao Yiwu

  Spiritual, Home, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Mind, Surrealism

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• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Garden, Yesterday, President

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Fear

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mind, Grasping

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• There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Heart, Holy Prophet

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• Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Creating, Profound, Creating Something

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.63, Modern Library

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• There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.

  Eric Sloane

  School, Echoes, Yesterday

  Eric Sloane (1956). “American Yesterday. [With illustrations.]”, New York : W. Funk

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• We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Generosity, Each Day, Riches

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• ...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Men, Years, Echoes

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Albums

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• A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Character, Successful

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.39

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• Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Thanks, Fit

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.289

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• To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pride

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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