Memory Quotes

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.

Language is memory and metaphor.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

My memory's pretty much gone.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

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 lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have a great memory.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.