Quotes about Remembrance

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

There had been that young Catholic girl in the bed next to me at the hospital who gave me a medal of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "I don't believe in these things," I told her, and it was another example of people saying what they do not mean. "If you love someone you like to have something around which reminds you of them," she told me.

He was paying some tribute to things unforgotten.

Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

Forgotten is forgiven.

They had forgotten — as people inevitably forget

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.