Memory Quotes

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

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.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

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

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.