Memory Quotes · Page 162

“Doing the right thing isn’t always hard — remembering to is.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

— Robert Ingpen

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

— Barbara Kingsolver

As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Born with nothing die with a legacy. born with everything and die with nothing but a memory.

— Trunxbeats

“You can forget about yourself and still know you will always do everything you are supposed to do.”

— Jill Spiewak Eng

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

— Michel de Montaigne

All the memories we shared all the laughter you gave me all those cherished moments we had together, is what I wished…

— Ceceia Velazquez

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are…

— Deepak Chopra

“I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric…

— Harshada Pathare

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it…

— Paul Simon

“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that…

— Roman Payne

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a…

— Steven Erikson

Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries.…

— Duke Roufus

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike,…

— Mike Royer

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my…

— Jaime Camil

“The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of…

— Iris Murdoch

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time…

— Maria Konnikova

“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have…

— Frederick Buechner

“The Doctor had a remarkable memory. The problem was, there was so much of it. He had lived eleven lives (or more:…

— Neil Gaiman

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities.…

— Susannah Cahalan

“To give up the taste of sushi or roasted chicken is a loss that extends beyond giving up a pleasurable eating experience.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying…

— John Green

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

— Anonymous

“It’s through remembering that we’re able to learn about ourselves, to grow.”

— Jack Cheng

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?”

— Diana Gabaldon

Don't waste time looking back on the memories that hurt you.

— Anonymous

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

— John Brown Gordon

People say that the bad memories cause the most pain. But actually it�s the good ones that drive you insane.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I love looking at old pictures and laughing at all the old memories that come flooding back.

— Anonymous

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

— David Mitchell

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

— Haruki Murakami

“In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.”

— Liu Xiaobo

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

— Sam Rockwell

“The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday”

— David Levithan

“How memory accordions time and places disparate moments next to one another like photographic slides on a tray!”

— Chaim Potok

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

— Tony Judt