#remembering

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#history #left #life #lived #man

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #history #led #life #man

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#i #kids #remembering #work

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. ↗

— Jack Schmitt

#canyon #child #describe #feel #first

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. ↗

— John Gray

#also #applying #forgetting #hearing #learning

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cheer #come #good #good cheer #hardest

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten. ↗

— John Green

#forgotten #memory #remembering #death

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death-of-a-loved-one #memories #remembering #death

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#better #death #drink #eat #etc