Remembrance Quotes

We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Remembrance Quotes from Giacomo Casanova, Ross Douthat, Dayananda Saraswati, Norman Davies, DeAndre Hopkins. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I re

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova
Jewish Americans weren’t just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success.
Ross Douthat
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
Dayananda Saraswati
Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.
Norman Davies
I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he’s had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.
DeAndre Hopkins
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe
I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much… stones to remembrance. And it’s like there’s constant stones of remembrance of what God has done.
Jeremy Camp
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
Laurence Housman
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
Marian Wright Edelman
I don’t think I would have made ‘Blank Project; if I hadn’t made ‘Cherry Thing.’ I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.
Neneh Cherry
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
Andre Aciman
Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.
Mother Angelica
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.
Hilton Als
Gold Star Families Remembrance Week gives us an opportunity to honor and recognize the sacrifices made by the families of members of the Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and secure our nation.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis’ birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
Otis Blackwell
I love Remembrance Sunday.
Katie Hopkins
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow
Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.
Jonathan Sacks
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
H. Rap Brown
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizsaecker
I’ve given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
Elie Wiesel
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb