Memory Quotes · Page 257

“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

— Jessica Lynch

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

— Nate Berkus

I've had people ask me, 'Do you remember doing this in a fight?' No, I really don't. I see things after.

— Aspen Ladd

“When you are dead and buried Do your thoughts and memories bubble to the surface?”

— Richard L. Ratliff

“We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich…

— Valerie Martin

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

— Jackie Robinson

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

— Eric Schmidt

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches…

— Victor Burgin

“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories.…

— Saša Stanišić

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory…

— Mikie Sherrill

“Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost…

— Regina Sirois

I have always been a fan of Kajol Ma'am. The way she portrayed Zooni's character in 'Fanaa' is etched in my memory.…

— Yami Gautam

“Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest,…

— Erica Goros

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with…

— Andre Breton

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…

— Siri Hustvedt

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“I’ve brought this city’s dust and smoke home and washed them with my face and clothes, I’ve picked up its raucous sounds…

— Suman Pokhrel

“Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully…

— Neil Gaiman

“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“These questions can be used by individual readers and also in reading groups in which participants are invited to share their memories…

— Marcus J. Borg

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and…

— Marcel Proust

Theres moments where I just sit down and read our old conversations, and Im not reading it for no reason. Im reading…

— Asking Alexander

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In fact, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d had anything to eat.”

— Christa Faust

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

— Daniel Schacter

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

— Lillie Langtry

I dont want to forget you, but remembering what used to be is killing me.

— Anonymous

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

— E. Joseph Cossman

“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.”

— Michael W. Twitty

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

— Anonymous

I don't remember everything I have read but I do remember quite a few reds that I have seen

— Danny Santagato

Live every moment of your life because in the end all you'll have are memories.

— Rumaisa Ansari

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

— Tupac Shakur

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Never regret. If it's good, it's a memory; if it's bad, it's a lesson learned.

— Ana Chable

“Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.”

— Caroline George