remembrance quotes

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.