Memory Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

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.

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.