Memory Quotes

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. — John Milton
When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with… — Lewis B. Smedes
Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on… — Lewis B. Smedes
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to… — Charles Dickens
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge… — Karl Buhler
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis… — Jean Klein
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible… — Stanley Kauffmann
Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . .… — Wilferd Peterson
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of… — Helene Hanff
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory Iâ€™ll come apart. — Harold Brodkey
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. — Mark Batterson
I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have… — Leon Festinger
My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information… — Hideo Kojima
Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child,… — Kathleen Raine
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. — Walter Scott
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,… — Samuel Johnson
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among… — Henry Van Dyke
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his… — Edward R. Murrow

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