Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
Who remembers everything about somebody?
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.
Smell remembers and tells the future. . . . Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.
Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
What the hand does the mind remembers.
The world only remembers the winners.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
One is what one remembers: no more, no less.
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
No one remembers who came fourth.
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
The earth rests, and remembers.
You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.