Forgotten Quotes
1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors
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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental…
— Jim Ryun
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Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
— Isaac Asimov
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There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease…
— Orson Scott Card
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Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people…
— Lynne Truss
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able…
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and…
— Kabir
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his…
— Robert Henri
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Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could…
— Alexander Masters
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I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten,
— Bob Kaufman
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There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
— Winston Churchill
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter…
— Billy Wilder
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I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything,…
— Pete Townshend
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet…
— Isaac Asimov
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Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or…
— Isaac Asimov
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One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't…
— Tony Kushner
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Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from…
— William Graham Sumner
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
— Michael Morpurgo
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of…
— Martin Luther
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Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss…
— Alan Moore
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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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