She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore…

“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.”

— Kate Forsyth

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the…

— Adam Haslett

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my…

— Menachem Begin

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

— Michael Chiarello

A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a…

— Jim Rohn

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

— Mark Teixeira

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For…

— Cormac McCarthy

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

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…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…

— Joaquin Phoenix