Memory Quotes

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Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back… — Jonathan Sacks
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. — Jerry Saltz
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave… — Jerry Saltz
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. — George Santayana
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. — Eric Schmidt
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. — Eric Schmidt
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory… — Clara Schumann
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. — Albert Schweitzer
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can… — Will Self
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the… — Rob Sheffield
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living… — Rupert Sheldrake
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family -… — Frank Sinatra
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way… — Lewis B. Smedes
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to… — Jane Smiley
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid… — Arthur Smith
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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