We Remember Quotes

206 quotes by 164 authors

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
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
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
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman
What we remember is probably fiction anyway. — Beryl Bainbridge
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
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
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

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