Memories Quotes

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

Once best friends now strangers with memories.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.