Memory Quotes

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The memory of man is as old as misfortune — Lawrence Durrell
I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities. — Arthur Cravan
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind.… — Agnes Martin
There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory. — Horacio Quiroga
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. — Guy Delisle
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the… — Hjalmar Schacht
Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies... — Eileen Chang
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory. — Michel Faber
It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home. — David St. John
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars… — Richard K. Morgan
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience… — Hayao Miyazaki
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. — Elizabeth Loftus
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around… — Jane Hamilton
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all lifeâ€™s many losses buried in those sands. — Thomas H. Cook
InÂ Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This RideÂ Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal… — Gurney Norman
I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder… — Ruskin Bond
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or… — Simon Van Booy
You canâ€™t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the… — Miguel Syjuco
Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense… — Hannah Kent

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