Ancestor Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image “Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestor Memories Memory
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we… — Mo Gawdat Copy Share Image
“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
Memories are like the house of ANTS, You never know, how many are hidden inside it. BUT When one comes out of it, Then… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there. — Richard Bandler Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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