Memory Quotes

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The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts,… — Robert Southey
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — John Steinbeck
A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of… — Randy Wayne White
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. — Sister Parish
...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel… — Sister Parish
Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away… — Adam Wilde
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If… — Lev Polugaevsky
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Benjamin Franklin
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel de Montaigne
The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure. — Wilhelm Reich
I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the… — Miley Cyrus
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it.… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire… — Gustav Stresemann
Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face. — Helen Steiner Rice
The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who… — Philip Guston
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years. — Mary McAleese

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