Memory Quotes

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.