Memories Quotes

The beautiful memories of tofu from when I was young

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

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.

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

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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

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.

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

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

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

All memory can do is scream for touch.

Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences.