Memories Quotes

6052 Memories quotes by 3279 unique authors

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. — Joy Harjo
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I… — Petrarch
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. — Studs Terkel
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature… — Holly Lisle
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'… — Richard Winters
I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now.… — Eugene B. Sledge
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of… — Jonathan Lethem
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I… — Jonathan Lethem
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears. — Charles Wright
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a… — Natalie Merchant
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress — Lillie Langtry
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. — Akira Kurosawa
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own… — Sally Mann
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of… — Sally Mann
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on… — V. S. Pritchett
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always… — E. M. Forster
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks… — Alastair Campbell
Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I… — Christina Perri
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be… — Roger Ebert
In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever — Royal Cortissoz
If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit-whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual… — Michael Ray
I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything… — Paulo Coelho

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