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I have an annnoucement banner that runs across the BCC home page.

Remember us for we too have lived, loved and laughed............ ( from the movie shutter Island source unknown)

I have added a quote that I thought was lovely and reminds us that
those names on BCC were real folk.....reminds us of our humanity.

Do you have any quotes that I could display
with that kind of sentiment.
Please add them on this thread, and quote the source too.
I can then vary the message shown

thanks

I quite like the one in my signature:

Not all of me shall die...........Horace

That Latin one is from Horace (ain't they all?)

You should have run yours as a competition NL! "Source that quote".

I found it in 1845:

"And they lived, laughed and loved a full cycle ago, And their beauty is dead and their tongues are dumb. They are taken whither we all must go, When the lips that bring death in a cold kiss come. Yet the master's sweet singing is still ..." some cheery little ballad by James Richard William Hingston,(under the name of Mark Muskerry) page 12.

http://www.archive.org/stream/abundleba ... 7/mode/1up


Don't know if anyone else said it though

I have a quote that I've attached to
the front of the book I keep my family
genealogy records in: ....
ALL THAT DWELLETH HERE,
HAVE GREAT AFFINITY TO ME
AND MINE.

C.S. Lewis
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately...If we could see the past, then of course it would look different...If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it...it would look like one single growing thing...every individual would appear connected with every other.

The full quote is much longer than that.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. Laurence Overmire

The following all come from this site, these are just my favourites.

Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. Author Unknown

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
William Shakespeare

This one I won't suggest for BCC, but I do quite like it nonetheless. Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. Author Unknown

Just tried to add the CS Lewis but it is too long
so one sentence is all that will fit unfortunately

keep em coming then .....nice ones to go on homepage

You live as long as you are remembered. -- Russian proverb

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable, each segment distinct...............Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications................. Laurence Overmire

Where once we burned bright remains a warm hazy glow........keep it lit remember us.........BCC
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. .........Albert Einstein