We Remember Quotes
206 quotes by 164 authors
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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd…
— Graydon Carter
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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Lavinia Milosovici
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Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid…
— John Wooden
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Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go…
— Rachel Maddow
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Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend,…
— George H. W. Bush
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
— Henry David Thoreau
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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
— Maya Angelou
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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…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we…
— Dean Koontz
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We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight…
— Barack Obama
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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…
— Barack Obama
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We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building…
— Barack Obama
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And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda…
— Barack Obama
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The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
— Peter Eisenman
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What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
— Beryl Bainbridge
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We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a…
— Gustav Mahler
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That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes…
— Barack Obama
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It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with…
— James Elroy Flecker
Who Wrote These We Remember Quotes
164 authors contributed a total of 206 We Remember Quotes, led by these top contributors: