Remembrance Quotes

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.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

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.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

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.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.