Memory Quotes · Page 167

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

— Milan Kundera

“It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.”

— D.S. Mixell

When the cameras are there all the time you know, it's hard and you can't forget about them.

— Victoria Silvstedt

You can ignore me as long as you can but you can never change memories I brought in your life.

— Anonymous

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget

— John Morley

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

— Gertrude Stein

“Normal life includes making sense of fragmentary memories.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll remember the experiences and memories you create.”

— RICHIE NORTON

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the…

— Mala Naidoo

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes…

— Kristin Cashore

“But the world feels too big and the words feel too small, and turning the slushy tangle of memories into clean lines…

— Elan Mastai

“You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining…

— John Steinbeck

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to…

— Desmond Tutu

“Maury’s mind was practical, solidly founded on history, memory, and experience. It was in no way academic or theoretical. He did not…

— Wendell Berry

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the…

— James Harvey Robinson

“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs…

— Italo Calvino

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It…

— Lisa Joy

I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories…

— Ruth Westheimer

“He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and…

— Rick Gekoski

“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying…

— Virginia Woolf

“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Well, ever since I was eleven, I have, found heaven in my self expression, Hah, Nope, my childhood I never left it,…

— BOB

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at…

— Jim Jarmusch

“JEWS HAVE SIX SENSES Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory. While Gentiles experience and process the world through the traditional senses,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What legacy can I leave behind to everybody that they will remember me?

— Liza Soberano

I believe in muscle memory - the more you practice an action, the more your body becomes in sync with it.

— James Ward-Prowse

Don't dwell on the memories you lost, but to smile on the ones you create.

— Dan Pellegrino

I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

— Anonymous

When I do good no one remembers when I do bad no one forgets.

— Enhance Dreams

I'm not going to die with dreams, I'm going to die with memories.

— Cody Garbrandt

“He told me off camera that he was despised by his neighbors for remembering when it was time to forget.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

— Italo Calvino

“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope”

— J.D. Estrada

Even when you forget what you're supposed to be doing, God still knows what you're here for.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.”

— Sara Marie Hogg

I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

— Anonymous

Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.

— Ugo Eze

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains.

— Anonymous