Remembrance Quotes — page 13

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all — the colleges I mean — like an opera.

O Memory! thou fond deceiver.

In drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

keep them to the practice of what you would have grow into a habit with them, by kind words, and gentle admonitions, rather as minding them of what they forget, than by harsh rebukes and chiding, as if they were wilfully guilty.

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

[L]et us not overrate the productivity of the exporting countries, and let us remember that the vinegrowers of Southern Europe drink themselves an abominable piquette; that s fabricates wine for home use out of dry raisins bought from …

While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven, Or drawing from the no less kindled earth Freedom and peace to that which boasts his birth; While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er …

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the …

To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

Setting the mind to remember... involves a continual minimal irradiation of excitement into paths which lead thereto... the continued presence of the thing in the 'fringe' of our consciousness. Letting the thing go involves withdrawal of …

Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders

Now wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.

Yet Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scare to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

[T]hey who complain, in peace, of the insolence of the populace, must remember, that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.

Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.