- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Quotes
What stays with us, in the words of those who lived it.
These quotes revolve around memory in different forms: the fading magic of a childhood holiday, the messy notes an idea leaves behind, and a specific recollection tied to a major public demonstration decades ago. For more reflections on time passing and looking back, see Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
R. Kelly is different - music is always going through his brain. I remember we'd be having a conversation, and he'd choose a word I said and write a whole song to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mom sitting at our kitchen table, paying bills with a small smile. She'd sigh and say, 'I'm so blessed to be able to pay these.' She knew it was about what you have.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' - 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020