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Memories Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story…
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.…
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
- To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
- I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of…
- Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,…
- Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
- We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing…
- Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
- Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
- In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?
- Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory…
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu