Memories Quotes

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.

Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years.

Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Trump did more interviews, he explained his agenda more than any political presidential candidate ever has, in my memory, and he has tried to stick to it as people perceive it.

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.