Remember Them Quotes

#1. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

Audrey Niffenegger

#2. I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

Daniel Radcliffe

#3. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

#4. Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

William Zinsser

#5. As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Peter S. Beagle

#6. Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

Tony Kushner

#8. people must die, so that their friends who are left alive may always remember them.

George Bird Grinnell

#9. I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

Helena Christensen

#10. I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.

Becky Albertalli

#11. They shall not grow 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.

Laurence Binyon

#12. I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.

Terry Gilliam

#13. I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

Willa Cather

#14. My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.

Thomm Quackenbush

#15. Does teacher spoil us??
Because I think that they spoil us, they say the answers and they want we to remember them.

Deyth Banger

#16. Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

Alice Hoffman

#17. There are some dreams you do wake up from, only to find you can't remember them at all. But that doesn't mean these dreams don't matter ...
These are dream that hold our most private of truths.
These are the dreams that destinies are made of.

Stephanie Kuehn

#18. Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.

Jimmy Fallon

#19. Why do you think I can remember that," she asked, "when you can't? Why does nature do that to us? How does that serve evolution? Those were the most important years of my life, and you can't even remember them.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

Frederick Lenz

#21. To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.

Heidi Klum

#22. We all remember people the way we want to remember them.

Cassia Leo

#23. In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Chetan Bhagat

#24. Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do ... And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened
instead of what really did.

Janette Oke

#25. Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Jane Smiley

#26. That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment

Melina Marchetta

#27. You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Jeff Tweedy

#28. I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.

Dwyane Wade

#29. Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

Chris Guillebeau

#30. The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Terry Pratchett

#31. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Markus Zusak

#32. I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like 'Hamlet'.

Denholm Elliott

#33. Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the way you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each of them, one by one.

Jack Kornfield

#34. Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

Lucinda Williams

#35. I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Marco Rubio

#36. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome

Deborah Harkness

#37. Life is about learning and we all learn something from one another. Today I remember them and thank for their contribution to shape up my life.

Pankaj Gupta

#38. Sometimes the only justice you can give to people is to remember them.

Sophia Martin

#39. Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects.

Julie Kagawa

#40. There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.

Louise Penny

#41. Every place is the same, but we put names and numbers, build building different types... so far to remember them better and to recognize them better!

Deyth Banger

#42. I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from another event. I know a lot of authors just sign a book and keep their heads down, but I'm not like that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Jane Levy

#44. friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them

Yasmine Gooneratne

#45. Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.

Hugh Lofting

#46. Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

Boyd K. Packer

#47. I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them ... Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#48. The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there.

Jennifer Niven

#49. I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness; they are like stubborn relatives who invite themselves over even when you've made it clear that they are unwelcome.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

#50. When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Meghan O'Rourke

#51. Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn't solve anything ... I don't like yelling and fighting and I can't quarrel, I prefer to let it drop ... When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

Grace Kelly

#52. My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

J. Cole

#53. When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

Johann Rupert

#54. They were told they were on a holy mission and that their country would remember them. Now people turn away and try to forget the war, especially those who sent us there in the first place.

Svetlana Alexievich

#55. To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

Marita Golden

#56. People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.

Marcus Aurelius

#57. There are good people, kind people, too. I've got to keep thinking of them. I've got to remember them. There are people who help. Not only people who destroy.

Helen MacInnes

#58. There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them ...

Tim Wise

#59. ... dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless as air.

Audrey Niffenegger

#60. There are times when you stand on the cusp of moments so huge, you know you'll remember them forever. This is that moment for me and for Ryan.

Katie McGarry

#61. I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories and make them happier.

Donna Leon

#62. I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

Alexa Chung

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

John Irving

#64. The rules are there so that we can remember them and follow them. If the rules were obvious, we wouldn't have to write them down.

Daniel H. Wilson

#65. Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

Franny Armstrong

#67. If you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.

Alexandra Potter

#68. I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

Holliday Grainger

#69. In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

Terry Pratchett

#70. If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

#71. Few now remember them,' Tom murmured, 'yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

John Donne

#73. That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

Liza Cody

#74. Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur
I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago

Jack Kerouac

#75. So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.

Marcel Proust

#76. The problem is that when you purposely want to forget someone, you remember them the most.

K. Bromberg

#77. I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

Alice Waters

#78. But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

Neil Gaiman

#79. We can't be sad about it forever, you know? We've got to think back to the good times and just remember them; that's all we can do. We can't worry about the past or what happened at the end, any more. I can't and you can't.

Sarah Dessen

#80. ... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.

Agatha Christie

#81. A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.

Joe Elliott

#82. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.

Tanya Karen Gough

#83. I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

Bernie Mac

#84. What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain of loss? What is the point of living if we have to always insulate ourselves?

Carrie Ryan

#85. But some of those memories, the things we hold most dear, they never fade. They're bright red. Not necessarily because they deserve to be red, but because that's how we choose to remember them.

Susan Flett Swiderski

#86. We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget

Anonymous

#87. I've never thought to notate my songs ... I tend to just have to remember them.

Scout Niblett

#88. The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.

Chuck Palahniuk

#89. Drinking doesn't make problems go away. Just because you can't remember them doesn't mean they're not there.

J.D. Robb

#90. As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Joseph Bruchac

#91. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Fred B. Craddock

#92. Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.

John Krasinski

#93. I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.

Sherwood Smith

#94. We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

John Green

#95. Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

Victoria Moran

#96. If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.

Les Claypool

#97. People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.

Raghu Karnad

#98. We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the "old kick" out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#99. although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn't remember them - if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting.

John Connolly

#100. The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Christian Boltanski