Memory Quotes

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.