Memory Quotes

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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it… — John Quincy Adams
I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens. — Gary Shteyngart
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know… — Anatole France
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look… — Pope Francis
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the… — Pope Francis
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. — Morgan Freeman
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. — Robert Frost
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller
We have all forgot more than we remember. — Thomas Fuller
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in… — Thomas Fuller
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. — Bill Gates
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in… — Edward Gibbon
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. — Khalil Gibran
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. — William Gibson
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. — Andre Gide
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. — Baltasar Gracian
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another… — Brian Greene
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm… — Terry Gross

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