Memory Like Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

• Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson
• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
• There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
• Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder
• To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot
• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out… — Dan Simmons
• Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. — Elizabeth Loftus
• We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of… — Simon Van Booy
• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
• I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen
• Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
• I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. — Noel Coward
• My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it. — Carnie Wilson
• If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… — Daphne du Maurier
• These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,… — Lawrence Durrell
• For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal… — Yann Martel
• This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this… — Sara Zarr
• They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few… — Graham Greene
• How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs… — Amitav Ghosh
• Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. — China Mieville

Who Wrote These Memory Like Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Memory Like Quotes as follows:

• 2 Memory Like Quotes by Diane Ackerman
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Dan Simmons
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Elizabeth Loftus
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Simon Van Booy
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Herb Caen
• 1 Memory Like Quote by John Clare
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Noel Coward
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Carnie Wilson
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Daphne du Maurier
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Lawrence Durrell
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Yann Martel
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Sara Zarr
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Graham Greene
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Amitav Ghosh
• 1 Memory Like Quote by China Mieville
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Memory Like Quote by James Merrow
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Ruthie Foster
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Gotye
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Richard Thompson
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Floyd Red Crow Westerman
• 1 Memory Like Quote by Anna Funder
• 1 Memory Like Quote by George Eliot