Memories Quotes
We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.
Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.
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.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.
Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.
My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.
