Memories Quotes

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

History takes time. History makes memory.

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

History is the memory of States.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!