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.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

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.