Keep Memory Alive Quotes

#1. I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Elie Wiesel

#2. I would like to choose my own warrior name. If it is all right, I wish to be known as Crowfeather." Crowpaw spoke so quietly, his voice was almost lost in the pounding water. "I wish to keep alive the memory of . . . of the cat who did not return from the first journey.

Erin Hunter

#3. This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

Horst Kohler

#4. Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.

Martina Devlin

#5. She will speculate that she didn't fully know her husband - this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband "alive" in her memory - elusive, teasing.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

Anthony Burgess

#7. In Kelanna, when they mourn, they tell stories - as if the stories will keep you close to them. Believing that if they tell them often enough, for long enough, you won't be forgotten. Hoping that the stories will keep you alive - if only in memory. But

Traci Chee

#8. Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.

Joan Rivers

#9. A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.

Adam Johnson

#10. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Morgan Freeman

#11. Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

John Irving

#12. But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose.

Walter Lord

#13. Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

Nicolas Roeg

#14. That's the reason it's so important to keep the memory alive, so that people know about it. Another ten or fifteen years, there won't be any witnesses.

Richard Rashke

#15. It's not that nobody ever gets away: that's not true. It's that you carry it with you. It doesn't matter that the days roll on like hills too low to give names to; they might be of use later, so you keep them. You replay them to keep their memory alive. It feels worthwhile because it is.

John Darnielle

#16. The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Rob Montgomery