Memory Quotes

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

~ Pope Francis

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

~ Tom Brokaw

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

~ Elbert Hubbard

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

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

~ James Martineau

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

~ Sheridan Smith

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

~ Sloane Crosley

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.

~ Liz Goldwyn

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

~ Steve Erickson

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

~ Nicolas Roeg

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

~ Bernardo Bertolucci

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

~ Don Bluth

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

~ Noah Feldman

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

~ Donald Knuth

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

~ Sydney Pollack

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

~ Molly O'keefe

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

~ Josh Billings

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

~ Herb Caen

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

~ Edgar Degas

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

~ William Morris

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

~ Joshua Foer

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

~ Isabel Allende

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

~ Emile M. Cioran

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

~ Ethan Canin

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

~ John Banville

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

~ Richard Russo

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

~ Samuel Johnson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

~ Washington Irving

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

~ Frankie Valli

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

~ Max Muller

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

~ Will Durant

My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.

~ Chelsea Clinton

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.

~ Jane Horrocks

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

~ Meghan Daum

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

~ James Howell

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

~ Aeschylus

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

~ Daniel Gilbert

Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

~ Ma Jun

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.

~ Morgan Freeman