Remembrance Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old remembrance quotes, remembrance sayings, and remembrance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
“
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
“
They shall grow not 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.
“
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
“
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
“
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
“
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
“
The good old times -- all times when old are good.
“
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
“
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
“
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
“
Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.
“
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
“
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
“
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
“
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
“
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present, than the living man.
“
He did not lose his place in the minds of men because he was out of their sight.
“
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
“
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, Lilies and laurels over them we lay, And violets o'er each unforgotten head.
“
We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
“
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
“
The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
“
All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
“
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.
“
Riveted, screwed to my memory.
“
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
“
I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.
“
Some people regret that they have poor memories. Alas! it is much more difficult to forget.
“
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
“
The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
