Quotes about Remembrance
O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.
- George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
- George Eliot
I go, but I always remember you.
- Isabel Allende
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
- Thomas a Kempis
I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
- Nelson Mandela
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
- Charles Dickens
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.
- Dolly Parton
Something that is loved is never lost.
- Toni Morrison
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
- Toni Morrison
What a man leaves behind is what a man is.
- Toni Morrison