Forget Quotes

• We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Forget
  • Need
  • Gospel

• Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

  

  Stan Musial
  • Swimming
  • Hitting
  • Stroke

• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Children
  • Hungry
  • Good Luck

• To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Secret
  • Mysteries
  • Labors

• Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Forget
  • Said
  • Wine

• You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Sometimes
  • Fit
  • Emptiness

• People talk about the exciting growth prospects in Brazil, China and India, but they forget that the US is not as developed as Western Europe. Plus, 66 million users in India will not have a huge ARPU, but it would be a lot of money in the US.

  

  John Whiting
  • Growth
  • Exciting
  • China

• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  

  William Slim
  • Military
  • Army
  • Defeat

• If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

  

  O. Henry
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Forget

• My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Advice
  • Flattering

• I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Couple
  • Path

• The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Teacher

• We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Guilt
  • Confessed

• When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Water
  • Forget
  • Spring

• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • True

• Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Greatness

• If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Free
  • Grief
  • Ifs

• I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Forget
  • Used

• As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Forget
  • Holocaust
  • Nobel

• Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Good
  • Great
  • Forget

• I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Mean
  • Idiotic

• Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Afternoon

• He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Knows
  • Able
  • Known

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