Forgotten Quotes

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

I have not forgotten my story I want to tell Millennial women. I'm still waiting for them all to gather out there. I sent out a request for people to call Millennial that they know.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

We have forgotten how to blush

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

The only way we can leave the pain or sin from our past is to face it with Christ. For the past cannot be forgotten, it can only be forgiven and redeemed.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.