Memory Quotes

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I don't think I remember my first memory. — Ellen DeGeneres
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin
A bad memory is the mother of invention. — Gerald Brenan
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. — Arthur Miller
I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really… — Paula Poundstone
I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going. — Paula Poundstone
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. — Francesco Guicciardini
My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame… — Martina Navratilova
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word… — Andre Breton
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as… — Arnold Bennett
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. — William Saroyan
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory. — Arthur Bloch
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. — Agesilaus II
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power… — Edmond de Goncourt

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