Top 100 We Remember Quotes
#1. But if we remember that to say is to renew, we will have no trouble defining a spiral: it's a circle that rises without ever closing.
Fernando Pessoa
#2. We forget more than we remember, we assume more than we know.
Marty Rubin
#3. Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.
Constance Hale
#4. When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
Jonathan Sacks
#5. It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time's circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others."
"Wouldn't we remember that?"
"I said time was circular," Calla replied. "I didn't say memories were.
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. Today we remember the man who brought magic back to this world by lighting a spark in all of you. You are all his legacy. You are the magic of Vagabond Circus.
Sarah Noffke
#7. Two things to begin with. First, we go on the premise that Dr. Lecter really knows something concrete. second, we remember that Lecter looks only for the fun. Never forget fun.
Thomas Harris
#8. It is in the quiet moments of reflection that we can gain a greater feeling of hope when we remember and recognize all the positive things that are happening during this time of great difficulty.
Laura Lane
#9. Our lives are not good - it is not the Afghanistan we remember - but it is still life.
Eric Blehm
#10. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick
#12. Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
Sheila Cassidy
#13. We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Emile Gaboriau
#15. Then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think - 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please ...
CrimethInc.
#16. We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people ... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.
Jaron Lanier
#17. If we remember that the German word for holy (selig) is the root of our word silly, we may be forced to make some pertinent connections.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#18. I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#19. Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
John Irving
#20. Who can remember the pangs and sweetness of those early years? We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused us to rave during a high fever.
Stephen King
#21. We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Krist Novoselic
#22. Every once in a while we remember that life is short, and to appreciate the time with your friends and family, and to be open to have beautiful exciting moments in your days and stop worrying about what's pulling you down.
Garrett Hedlund
#23. We remember the specter of sectarian violence
al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.
Barack Obama
#24. We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville Cardus
#25. We don't remember isolated facts; we remember things in context.
Joshua Foer
#26. The meals we remember are the ones we have with others, not the TV.
Pamela Heyne
#27. What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.
Stephen Elliott
#29. Because the earth calls. The soil, the rocks, the clay. It calls to us to remind us, to make sure we remember. The earth will ultimately win. It always does. We will, all of us, end our lives here. Even the birds.
Garth Stein
#30. Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.
Brian Weiss
#31. All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else.
Paolo Giordano
#32. Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.
Claire Legrand
#34. There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then
we remember
and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.
L.M. Montgomery
#35. We are all photographers, that's how we remember things; with pictures in our minds. Some of us have good taste and passion to make it an art form and just a few warriors who know the technicalities and marketing make a living out of it.
Ben Tolosa
#36. The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
Paul Auster
#37. What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#38. When we live up to our calling, we remember that in God's church people do not set the agenda, they are the agenda.
D. A. Carson
#39. Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.
Daniel L. Schacter
#40. There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear ...
Jim Butcher
#41. In our dreams we do not think differently, we remember differently.
John Lukacs
#42. Some memories find a permanent place in the heart, and we remember those times as being sunlit and beautiful
Anamika Mishra
#43. From life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor.
Malinda Lo
#44. I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.
Deirdre Madden
#45. Dreams that we see today, make the memories that we live tomorrow, And, memories that we remember, make what dreams we see today.
Sankalp Kohli
#46. Sometimes we remember onlywhen we see the pass, and the pass is remember when our eyes are open
Pedro
#47. Remember that we remember very little! 10% of what we read or hear 50% of what we hear and see 80% of what we say 90% of what we say while doing For
Imran Umar
#48. We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.
Laura Dave
#49. The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.
James Kenneth Stephen
#50. The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.
Geoffrey O'Brien
#51. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
David Livingstone
#52. How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves
Charles Spurgeon
#53. The things we remember the clearest aren't necessarily the big, heart-stopping moments everyone expects. They're the little things that add up. The little things most people look over but that mean the most.
Emma Hart
#54. Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember ...
Klaus Mann
#55. So much of a novelist's writing ... takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham Greene
#56. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
Sherman Alexie
#57. If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Saint Augustine
#59. The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.
Charles Wright
#60. The root of our disobedience is essentially failing to remember who he is. And the reverse is true - for as long as we remember who he is, we will serve him wholeheartedly, radically, and joyfully.
Timothy Keller
#61. We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
Gore Vidal
#62. We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
Marcel Proust
#63. But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.
Paul Kearney
#64. She thinks how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims. What if the world forgot Hitler and remembered all the names of his victims? What is we immortalized the victims?
Rene Denfeld
#65. It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.
Lucy Larcom
#66. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
Dave Eggers
#68. But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#69. For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.
Jodie Evans
#70. It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the world, and we recall the world, and one day we won't do either anymore. The church bells will ring and the drunks will drink.
Peter Orner
#71. While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. It's not just that we remember things wrongly (which would be bad enough), but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly,
Daniel J. Levitin
#73. It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.
Anne Sweeney
#74. For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.
Mark Nepo
#75. We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.
Bill Johnson
#76. How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?' Asked once, when emptiness was the worst. Why ever [would] he want to remember that?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#77. We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find.
Marty Rubin
#78. It is important that we remember.
It is vital we do more than just remember.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#80. From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
Bill Frist
#81. She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
Paul McCartney
#82. There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
Lauren Groff
#83. We often say things like, "Jesus died so I didn't have to, " but it's actually much worse. The truth is, Jesus died and so did I. But the worse morphs into better when we remember that Jesus didn't stay dead. And neither do we. Let the dying moments remind us where to find the living.
Emily P. Freeman
#85. In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find out that we no longer have the least thing in common with them, I thought.
Thomas Bernhard
#86. It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right?
Kevin Connolly
#87. Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.
Robert McKee
#88. How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#89. Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.
Alexandra Robbins
#90. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.
William Fulton
#92. Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.
Janet Morris
#93. We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Cassandra Clare
#94. This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Artur Davis
#95. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
Lavinia Milosovici
#97. What makes them classics? Artful storytelling, sure, but beyond the storytelling, classics have enduring appeal mostly because we remember the experiences we had while reading them; we remember not the art but the impact. When
Donald Maass
#98. There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.
Elizabeth Eiler
#99. The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.
Katherine Center
#100. All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
