Nation That Forgets Quotes

#1. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

David McCullough

#2. A nation that forgets its past has no future

Sir Winston Churchill

#3. When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in ... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

Robert E. Howard

#4. The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Colin Thubron

#6. I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Dave Navarro

#7. When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Mary Pope Osborne

#8. Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

Daniela Hantuchova

#10. In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

Dan Gillmor

#11. I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

Tom Verlaine

#12. The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference.

Stephen Richards

#14. I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

Neil Gaiman

#15. The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

Sakyong Mipham

#16. For happiness, love is your only choice.

Debasish Mridha

#17. A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

#18. Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

Cher

#19. When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

Magic Johnson

#20. Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux