Memory Quote by Lois Lowry Download Open image ““Why do you and I have to hold these memories?" "It gives us wisdom," The Giver replied.”” — Lois Lowry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Wisdom
“We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember.” — Ian Bates Copy Share Image
“We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.” — Ian M Bates Copy Share Image
“You don’t remember the gifts you are given; you remember the giver and how their love made you feel.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Memories are both helpful and hurtful and we decide which to keep alive.” — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
“Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will,… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image