Quotations About / On: REMEMBER

  • 41.
    The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. speech, Nov. 19, 1863. Gettysburg Address, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953). Lincoln's Gettysburg Address—taking him only about three minutes to deliver—is perhaps the most quoted speech of all time.)
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  • 42.
    Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!
    (Bert Kalmar, U.S. screenwriter, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Leo McCarey. Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx), Duck Soup, proclaiming his loyalty to Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) as he and his men hold back enemy forces (1933).)
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  • 43.
    "Revenge," I shrieked, groping to remember the affront.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 44.
    It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember!
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Life Without Principle" (1863), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, pp. 474-475, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 45.
    Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 9, 1850, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 186, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 46.
    It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "A Small Journal," entry for Jan. 1, 1972, The Poet's Story, ed. Howard Moss (1974).)
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  • 47.
    I remember your cool body
    Naked under a summer cotton dress.
    (Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. A Spring Night in Shokoku-ji (l. 9-10). . . No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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  • 48.
    Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Ghost, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5, l. 91. His father's ghost gives a final command to Hamlet.)
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  • 49.
    Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
    But still remember what the Lord hath done.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 2, sc. 1, l. 83-4. To a blind man who recovered his sight; "unhallowed" means unblessed by prayers.)
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  • 50.
    Don't accept rides from strange men,
    and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
    (Robin Morgan (b. 1941), U.S. feminist author, poet. Sisterhood is Powerful, "Letter to a Sister Underground" in Introduction (1970).)
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