Here is my gift, not roses on your grave, not sticks of burning incense. You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain. You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes, and suffocated inside stifling walls. Alone you let the terrible stranger in, and stayed with her alone.
Now you're gone, and nobody says a word about your troubled and exalted life. Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn at your dumb funeral feast. Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
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My sister and brother-in-law started the ministry in memory of my nephew, ... Because it's my nephew, I have a very emotional tie to the ministry. You just can't get a better story for feeding hungry children.
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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We played this game in his memory. He promised the coaching staff that he would get us back here as a senior. This game was really in memory and tribute to him.
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I'm very excited to be working with these people. Washington University has an incredibly strong program in memory studies. It can make a real claim to having the strongest memory group in North America, if not the world. This is as good as it gets.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Quotes and jokes are like any night involving beer: amusing at the time but fuzzy at best in memory.
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Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
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