Memory Quotes

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With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face… — Chuck Close
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into… — Billy Sunday
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that… — Muriel Rukeyser
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language… — Carol Ann Duffy
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. — Leonard Nimoy
It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live,… — Vincent Van Gogh
. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths. — Victor Hugo
A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture… — Jim Rohn
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin
Lord, keep my memory green. — Charles Dickens
It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could… — George Will
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. — Antoine Rivarol
After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory. — Huston Smith
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in… — Mortimer Adler
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the… — Oscar Milosz
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one… — Gaston Bachelard
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Meek Walton's heavenly memory. — William Wordsworth

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