Memories Quotes

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

Memory narrativises itself.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Memory is a great betrayer.

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?