Memory Quotes

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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. — Akira Kurosawa
The earth doesnâ€™t care where death occurs. ...Itâ€™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
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
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
Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the… — Arthur J. Deikman
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you… — Khalil Gibran
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of… — William Wordsworth
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king… — Sara Teasdale
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware.… — Grantly Dick-Read
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like… — Margaret Mahy
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart… — Aeschylus
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory. — Eric Sevareid
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in… — Marya Hornbacher
Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before… — Allen Lacy
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us. — David Seamands
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. — Plato

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