Memory Quotes

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In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all… — Oscar Wilde
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. — George Eliot
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. — Antonio Porchia
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other menâ€™s works, for his own memory sake, into… — Roger Ascham
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see… — Burgess Meredith
On the stem of memory imaginations blossom. — Patrick Kavanagh
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies… — John Hollander
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. — Jules Renard
The memory of the just survives in Heaven. — William Wordsworth
Memory is a great betrayer. — Anais Nin
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them… — Emile M. Cioran
What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — William Butler Yeats
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what… — Samuel Johnson
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh… — William J. Clinton
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner

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