Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

But monument themselves memorials need.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

The past is more than a memory.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.