Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2234 authors

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. — Thomas Moore
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not… — Haruki Murakami
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion. — Michael Morpurgo
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of… — William Morris
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. — Toni Morrison
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history… — Grandma Moses
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. — Max Muller
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we… — Max Muller
Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we… — Max Muller
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. — Vladimir Nabokov
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman
How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging… — Rachel Nichols
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the… — Richard M. Nixon
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. — Joyce Carol Oates
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory. — Ozzy Osbourne
It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory. — Rafael Palmeiro
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. — Gilbert Parker
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory… — Jean Paul

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