Memories Quotes

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

When we arrive at eternity's shore Where death is just a memory and tears are no more We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'

Seriously. Thank you all. In that ring w/all of u watching was THE best place for me for a very long time. Thx for the memories.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.