Remembrance Quotes

"Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack."

"For me it's easy to continue remembering someone that is impossible to forget."

"Someone, I tell you, will remember us."

Sappho

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

Haruki Murakami

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

Laurence Binyon

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row."

John McCrae

"We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields."

John McCrae

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays."

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

Pericles

"Lest we forget."

Rudyard Kipling

"Have you forgotten yet?... Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget."

Siegfried Sassoon

"We cherish, too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valor led."

Moina Michael

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

Thomas Campbell

"They went with songs to the battle, they were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow."

Laurence Binyon

"Gathered like pearls in their alien graves, silent they sleep by the Persian waves... they lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands."

Sarojini Naidu

"Remembrance is a form of meeting."

Kahlil Gibran

"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."

Anne Frank

"It happened, therefore it can happen again."

Primo Levi

"If you can, please come and see where the Indian Army fought for your tomorrow."

Captain Vijayant Thapar

"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

Elie Wiesel

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

George Eliot