- History
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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.
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- Episcopal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
- I Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
- Nov 07, 2020
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you score a goal by dribbling you don't remember it because it is instinctive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020