Memory Quotes

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

Language is memory and metaphor.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

My memory's pretty much gone.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.