Memory Quotes

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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber… — John Austin Baker
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared… — Steven Bochco
I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a… — Lou Thesz
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. — Maurice Baring
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into… — Erik Naggum
Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed. — Gerald Fischbach
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a… — Doris Grumbach
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet. — Myrtle Reed
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as… — Cassandra Clare
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discs and memory are far cheaper than annoying your customers. — Steve Huffman
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Brian Ruckley
A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. — Brian Jacques
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell… — Isabel Allende
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard
What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's… — Christopher Poole
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. — Michel de Certeau
Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the… — Lottie Moon
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. — Justin Kaplan

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