Memory Quotes

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

An angel has no memory.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

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 to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.