Memory Quotes

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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
Remorse is memory awake. — Emily Dickinson
Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free! — Spartacus
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. — Gordon Bell
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone. — Gordon Bell
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. — James Herriot
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of… — John Muir
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of… — William Osler
If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your… — Jim Rohn
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate… — Oskar Kokoschka
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to… — Howard Zinn
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks… — Khalil Gibran
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest… — Charles M. Schulz
If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what… — Ross Bleckner
It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years… — David Bowie
Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? — Mira Bartok
Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past. — Tahar Djaout
Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you. — John Irving

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