Memories Quotes

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

Poetry is the memory of language

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

all my wealth is in my memories.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

I'm in relationship right now and one thing that I've loved about it is sharing the memories.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

Nothing can take away our memories or what we know.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.