Memory Quotes

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Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end. — Madame De Stael
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from… — Abraham Lincoln
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and… — John Dewey
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. — Francis Bacon Sr
We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had… — Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. — French Proverb
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise. — Red Constantino
Mighty mouse charm appraised that, just bout 50 Gotta shine like Diddy, cross em up like Bibby, Many men wanna kill me but I'm not… — Gucci Mane
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch… — George Sutherland
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time — Barbara Kingsolver
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. — Cesare Pavese
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good — Friedrich Nietzsche
A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name — Gerald Griffin
Memory is the library of the mind — Francis Fauvel-Gourand
Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. — Susan Spano
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. — Chris Cobbs
Memory: a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. — Pierce Harris
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered — Marcus Aurelius
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are — Plutarch

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