Memory Quotes

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.

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.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

An angel has no memory.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.