Top 400 Remembered Quotes

I’m a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn’t like herself.
Shannyn Sossamon
Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it’s a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.
Ryan Adams
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.
Don Yaeger
It's like your children talking about holidays, you fin

It’s like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it’s remembered.
Denis Norden
I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn’t remembered.
Mark Goddard
When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.
Kurt Warner
It’s nice to be remembered.
George Mikan
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
Porter Robinson
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
What matters is that you do great work, and you will definitely be remembered for that for years to come.
Armaan Malik
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
Gore Vidal
Being in the Hall of Fame is where any player wants to be at the end of his career. It’s somewhat of a last step for a player in terms of their career, and it’s a place where you’ll always be remembered for what you accomplished.
Scottie Pippen
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
Bobby Darin
I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Malala Yousafzai
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Thomas Clarkson
I loved working with Ram Gopal Varma in ‘Bhoot.’ Surprisingly, he remembered my earlier performances and narrated them to me frame by frame when we met for the first time.
Victor Banerjee
There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people’s faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.
Miranda Otto
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
Kevin Kwan
I’m mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I’d be remembered forever. Now, I’ll have to throw him another.
Bill Lee
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how his first child, Molly, had been born while Charlie was deployed to the first Gulf War.
Stanley A. McChrystal
I’d like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
Neil Kinnock
I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren’t remembered for anything. I don’t mind that.
Julie Walters
Am I really going to be simply remembered as ‘that guy from that dance show?
Valentin Chmerkovskiy
It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.
Henry J. Heinz
That’s all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.
Andrae Crouch
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
Walter Cronkite
We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.
Jeanie Buss
I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you’re thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
Ruth Wilson
I worked on ‘Sarah Connor’ even longer than ‘Firefly.’ And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn’t know what to do, and I didn’t know the rules, and I didn’t know camera angles, and I didn’t know lighting.
Summer Glau
I would like to be remembered as the guy who worked hard every night and set an example for the other guys in the locker room and girls in the locker room.
Kane
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Orson Scott Card
I’d say that I’m super proud of only four or five things I’ve done, but mostly I’d like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.
Gil Bellows
I want to be remembered as a star.
Allu Arjun
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Inge
In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I pl

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.
Kane
A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
Richard Rodgers
I hope to live long and be happy. But I’d like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
Mary Archer
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
I don’t want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.
Helen Reddy
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
Man is remembered by his deeds.
Knute Nelson
‘Invisible Man’ holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn’t have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
Darryl Pinckney
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
bell hooks
I’m very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can’t absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I’ve always remembered that.
Trinny Woodall
I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of ‘Nova’ and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don’t think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.
Miriam Shor
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
Robert Duvall
How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that’s what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.
Rashad Evans
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents’ generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
Bryce Dallas Howard
I want to be remembered for the work that I’ve done, rather than the car accidents that I’ve gotten into, the men that I’ve not dated – or the man that I have.
Lindsay Lohan
Even though half of my stint in ‘Balika Vadhu’ was positive, people majorly remembered me for the negative part I played initially.
Roop Durgapal
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
The light dims a little bit as you get older and new generations come along. But it’s around the holidays when I am remembered the most. It is very special, and I get a kick out of it now as much as I did when I first started.
Johnny Mathis
Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and ’30s, adventure strips had taken over. With ‘Beetle Bailey,’ I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I’d be proud to be remembered for that.
Mort Walker
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition – the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
Mary Landrieu