Memory Quotes

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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. — Taylor Caldwell
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd… — Graydon Carter
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. — Ray Charles
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet is the memory of past troubles. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety. — Sandra Cisneros
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good… — Kurt Cobain
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and… — Kevin J. Anderson
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and… — Loni Anderson
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for… — Thomas A. Edison
Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. — Tim McGraw
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her… — Andrew Jackson
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

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