Memory Quotes · Page 217

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

— Robert Southey

How do people write an auto biography? I can barley remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

— Anonymous

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.

— Robert Glasper

“No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form.”

— Italo Calvino

“If you forget everything I tell you, remember this: You can’t ever be friends with somebody who wants what you have.”

— Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

— Terry Pratchett

“That's how we lose people...detail by detail, day by day, until they're pale, pale memories.”

— Sheila Turnage

“Remembering is important. You're right to fight how he'll be remembered.”

— Danielle Mages Amato

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated…

— John French Sloan

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When we pollute the moment with excessive distraction and stimulation, it affects our ability to slow time, to record memories, and to…

— David Romanelli

My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being…

— Steven Berkoff

“If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn…

— Rick Warren

“Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for…

— Sarah Manguso

“I’m all through as a human being,” she said. “All you’re looking at is the lingering memory of what I used to…

— Anonymous

“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them…

— Geoffrey Wood

We should honour the memory of past members like Airey Neave by treating each other and the institution of parliament itself with…

— Kemi Badenoch

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about.…

— Jennifer Egan

“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write…

— Isabel Allende

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to…

— Joshua Foer

“I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through…

— Benjamin R. Smith

All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have…

— Roger Deakin

Forgetting someone you didn't know is like erasing something that wasn't even there.

— Anonymous

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

I can easily forgive but I will never forget and am certainly happy..

— Melchor Lim

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

— Junot Diaz

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

— Kevin Hart

I open a text and mentally respond then forget to actually respond.

— The Blog That Describe Your Life

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

— Alan Cohen

“We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.”

— Simon Van Booy

I love hearing old songs I used to love. Theyre like memories you can always go back to.

— Anonymous

“When everything is lost, it is better not to remember what you had. And I had nothing.”

— Tom DeLonge

Good memories make you smile again, and bad memories make you feel the same pain you felt before all over again.

— SONYA PARKER

Whoever said that forgetting someone is an easy task, they might just want to reconsider that.

— Anonymous

“Great memories are things that others would like to hear that would never be found in your obituary.”

— Anonymous

I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

— Ian McLagan

You can crop me out of the pictures we took together, but you can never crop me out of the memories we…

— Theheartcatcher

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

— John Green