Memory Quotes

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.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

White Americans have a short memory.

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.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

You never know when you're making a memory.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.