Quotations and Literature Forum

...to die.



can anybody tell me who originally said that? i saw it in regard to 9/11, but didn't catch to whom it was attributed. thanks![/u]

The three attributions that show up the most are as follows:

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
~Native American Proverb (Tuscarora)
http://www.oneproverb.com/bwfolder/nativebw.html
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/deadmantalk ... uotes2.htm
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/deadmantalk ... uotes2.htm

"To live in the hearts of those you leave behind is never to die"
~Robert Orr~
This is a paraphrase of a line in the poem by Hugh Robert Orr, entitled, "They Softly Walk". The original line reads, "They are not dead who live in hearts they leave behind"
http://www.annieshomepage.com/memorialday.html
http://latosha.freeservers.com/Page5.html

"To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die."
~Poet Thomas Campbell, circa 1888
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/404 ... rjeri.html
http://www.virtualwall.org/dl/LyonsTJ01a.htm