Memory Quotes · Page 184

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in…

— Steve Nash

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

— Anonymous

Forgetting is like lighting a candle. The candle slowly disappears but the wax is always there.

— Anonymous

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

— Rebecca West

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

— Jodi Picoult

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”- Aldous Huxley”

— Joseph Walker

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

— Samuel Johnson

“When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again.”

— Gena Showalter

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all…

— Jack London

Taking walks down memory lane can be outrageously funny until it sets in that the things you did are the ones you…

— Nishan Panwar

Things change, people change, it doesn't mean you forget the past, it simply means that you move on and treasure the memories.

— Jeigh Ilano

I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small…

— Boo Weekley

I don't know what's my first real memory. When you're little, you're always looking forward to days that are special, like Christmas,…

— Ice Cube

“The dogs were phantoms, signs and superstitions come to life, representatives of the moon. But sunlight burns the memory, leaving only a…

— Kirsty Eagar

“...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative,…

— Philip J. Hilts

“...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a…

— Hilary Mantel

“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on…

— Alfred Korzybski

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If the past isn't weighing me down, I could have climbed higher. Who knows what I could have been, a free spirit…

— Anonymous

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are…

— Umberto Eco

“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I…

— Donna Tartt

“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under…

— Michael Salter

“It is like a beautiful sunset you see once in your life, one you swear you will never forget as long as…

— J.A. Saare

Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my…

— Colin Morgan

“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.”

— Manu Joseph

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

— Joyce Meyer

You can replace me but you cant replace the memories u had with me..

— Anonymous

“Oh, that’s right,” I said aloud, remembering that I was at school, and my”

— Marcus Emerson

I forget some things, which earns me the nickname of 'Head in the air.'

— Blaise Matuidi

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

— Jonathan Winters

“The more golden the memories became, so of course the loss seemed even greater.”

— Laura Wilson

The memories that are etched in your heart can never be erased.

— Babloo

“Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain.”

— Anne Fadiman

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

— David Seamands

What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

— Emily St. John Mandel

“Songs carry memories almost as reliably and poignantly as smells.”

— Glenn Haybittle

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

— Mark Twain

“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”

— Ali Shaw

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.”

— Arthur Rimbaud