Memory Quotes

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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture:… — Joshua Foer
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in… — John Hodgman
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory. — Orrin Woodward
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime. — Bertrand Russell
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as… — Mary McAleese
It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make… — Seneca the Younger
And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory… — William Wordsworth
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. — Charles Lamb
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. — Griffin Dunne
Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. — Trevor Nunn
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. — Martha Graham
Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory. — Leonardo da Vinci
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Kathleen Raine
Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has... — Murray Walker
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own… — Albert Finney
The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. — David Klinghoffer

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