Forgotten Quotes

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.