Memory Quotes · Page 214

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar.

— Carl Phillips

If you do good, you may forget it; but if you do ill, you will always remember it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is.”

— Carson of Downton Abbey

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

— Martha Ronk

“Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.”

— Larry Woiwode

When you retire, no-one remembers that you finished in the top four. They remember you won a trophy.

— Demba Ba

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

— Frank Zappa

“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can…

— Roy T. Bennett

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the…

— Richard Eyre

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

And no matter how many times I burn the notes and toss the gifts the memory of them still hangs around in…

— Katy Reichl

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory…

— Anonymous

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will…

— Plato

“I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should…

— Oscar Wilde

It's sad how our memories are now like clouds, vivid, clear, vastly beautiful, and only can be seen but can't be touched.

— Anonymous

“When his father told him about his alarm at having forgotten even the most impressive happenings of his childhood, Aureliano explained his…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies…

— Robin Hobb

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function…

— Matt Cartwright

“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how…

— Wendy Griswold

“There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in…

— Anthony Doerr

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

— Umberto Eco

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

“It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.”

— William Faulkner

“They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.”

— Dee Henderson

“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

I'm the kind of person with a short-term memory. I like to let things go, to let them get back to normal.

— Shawn Porter

“That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.”

— David Hutchinson

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it's going to come back to haunt you.

— Abby Lee Miller

“The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps.”

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“Create beautiful moments with your loved ones, so you can have wonderful memories.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession.”

— Susan Dodd

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

— Baltasar Gracian

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

— Stephen King

Why is it that when I do wrong no one forgets but when I do right no one remembers

— Russyb

“We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

— Terri Herman-Poncé