Quotes about Remembrance

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION;...

Every day we must turn again to God's acts of salvation, so that we can again move forward…. Faith and obedience live on remembrance and repetition. Remembrance becomes the power of the present because of the living God who once acted for me and who reminds me of that today.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

There had been that young Catholic girl in the bed next to me at the hospital who gave me a medal of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "I don't believe in these things," I told her, and it was another example of people saying what they do not mean. "If you love someone you like to have something around which reminds you of them," she told me.

He was paying some tribute to things unforgotten.

Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.