Memories Quotes

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.

He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.

I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind

Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.