Memory Quotes

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.