Memory Quotes

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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… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above… — Carolina Herrera
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and distinct… — Pope Pius XI
History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments. — Anne Michaels
Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. — John Lahr
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally â€” it's often not important. And then you… — Edouard Manet
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let… — Henry A. Wallace
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into… — A. E. Housman
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. — Austin O'Malley
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. — Henry Anatole Grunwald
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing… — Herbert Benson
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara
You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory. — Lanny Wadkins
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the… — Lewis B. Smedes
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your… — Lewis B. Smedes
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in… — Alan Cooper

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