Memories Quotes

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!

The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

Memory is your image of perfection.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing memories were aching.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

I'll note you in my book of memory.