Memories Quotes
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.
Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.
Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.
You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.