Top 400 Remembered Quotes

Don’t overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I’ve always remembered it.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

I don’t want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I would just like to be remembered.

I just want to be remembered as an inspiration. I don’t want to be remembered as anything else.

Ultimately you play the game to be the champion, to be remembered.

I hope to be remembered one day as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, fighter in MMA history.

I’ll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history. But I can’t do nothing about that.

‘Lucky Man’ I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn’t even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.

I don’t think I’ll be remembered in a big Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin way. I think I’ll be remembered in this way: by the people who were there, who can’t capture or explain it. I’m not trying to brag or anything. It’s not about me. It’s about facilitating a good time for everyone.

I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

I know I’m not an All-Star or star player, but I want to be remembered as a great role player who won a lot of games and leave my mark in the league.

I would like to be remembered as someone who came out there and tried to entertain.

There’s something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Oh, you know, your legacy’s all you’re gonna be remembered by.

I wouldn’t want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Ever since I was really little, I started doing a – I don’t know how to put this – mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, ‘You can’t do that!’ But my dad really laughed.

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder,’ and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn’t want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

I’d like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

I’d like to be remembered with affection, with regard, and with just a smallest amount of admiration – that here’s a man who walked against the tide.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

I want to be remembered as someone like Mohammad Ali. He was not just a fighter – he was a freedom fighter.

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody’s business.

Historians will look back and say, ‘Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.’ Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

I think most people, almost 96 percent, remember me as Catwoman on the ‘Batman’ television series. It is a part I will always be grateful for, because it was one of the great parts ever written for a woman. She was sexy, sassy and successful. I played many things, but that is what I will probably be best remembered as.

I want to be remembered as the different characters I have portrayed.

The future is, of course, imaginary – an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time,’ especially ‘Time Regained,’ made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society – even if this is not currently understood.

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by – the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.

I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, ‘You’re almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.’

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you’re Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.

The way I want to be remembered is not the way I will be, and I’m cool with that.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people.

The first three times we met, I don’t think I remembered anything. I was just in this daze like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m sitting here with Paul Reubens.’ And I kept almost calling him Pee-wee.

I’ve dealt with losing close ones before, and I’ve been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it’s important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you’re going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I’m going, and Twitter will get it, and if there’s a controversy, I can give my opinion. It’s easier to communicate.

We often know only one version of the story… the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to tell the tale, and the one who loses a war is always remembered as the ‘Antagonist’ making the victor the ‘Protagonist.’

We made ‘Baahubali’ with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

I want to be remembered for the good work that I’ve done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that’s remembered.

At times I’ve got a really big ego. But I’ll tell you the best thing about me. I’m some guy’s dad; I’m some little gal’s dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie’s husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate’s father, boy, that’s enough for me to be remembered by. That’s more than enough.

When I say that I’m not dancing, people get it confused, like I’m not going to do anything outside of rap. It’s not that. When I leave this earth, I want to be remembered as an M.C. But I’m definitely going to touch a lot of other genres, not just rapping.