Memory Quotes

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This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again.… — Horst Kohler
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or… — Michael L Morgan
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my… — Stephen Covey
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. — Benjamin Franklin
Hunger steals the memory — Louise Erdrich
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ...… — Georgia O'Keeffe
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands… — John Milton
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. — Doug Larson
She said I bet you dont remember me And I said only every other memory. — Tim McGraw
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember — Harold Pinter
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a… — Marcel Proust
For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person… — Robert Keith Leavitt
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction. — Ulric Neisser
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that… — Thomas Carlyle
I find myself having these conversations where I go...You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.… — Dave Barry
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory… — Charles Caleb Colton
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory — Whittaker Chambers

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