Quotes About A Memory

#1. I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

Roma Downey

#2. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

Neal Shusterman

#3. A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Raisa Gorbacheva

#4. Spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

John Geddes

#5. A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

Jimmy Carter

#6. The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything.

Tom Rob Smith

#7. You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.

Sharon Sala

#8. I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Truman Flynn is a piece of paper in my coat pocket. He is a memory of water and of loss, his hand sliding free from mine, no way to hold on.

Brenna Yovanoff

#10. Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.

Roland Barthes

#11. Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.

Carolyn Brown

#12. Only because it's still so raw and real. Soon I'll just be a series of images that sometimes flash through your mind, when you least expect it. And after that, only a few will stay.
Then, one. A memory of a memory.

Pleasefindthis

#13. Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Sandra Cisneros

#14. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Tennessee Williams

#15. It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

Neil Young

#16. Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

Nick Drake

#17. Growing up, I meant to be a memory.

Alejandro Zambra

#18. When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.

P. Wish

#19. There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.

Optimus Prime

#20. Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

Anthony Doerr

#21. If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

Ian Brown

#22. It's like a memory in stereo." Sandy

James J. Murray

#23. We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

B.J. Novak

#24. Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf.

Marty Rubin

#25. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.

Neil Gaiman

#26. Scars are a reminder - a history or a memory stamped right onto your skin. I feel like I should have something stamped all over mine. On every single piece of me.

Beckie Stevenson

#27. Don't let me go off to the front without having touched you for the first time, without having heard your voice say my name. Don't let me go off to the front without a memory of you in my heart.

Jessica Brockmole

#28. The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.

Steve Toltz

#29. We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.

Lydia Millet

#30. The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

David Klinghoffer

#31. I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

Azar Nafisi

#32. In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music - the ones that elicit vivid memories - cause the greatest activity on brain scans.

Jodi Picoult

#33. A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward De Bono

#34. Every person we meet on our journey leaves a memory. That memory leaves an imprint on us for the rest of our lives. I have learnt that the only objective is to keep that imprint a happy one.

Nilesh Rathod

#35. To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" ... It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

Walter Benjamin

#36. Let yourself feel good again, laugh with friends, have fun. Living your life to the full is not betrayal of a memory but fulfillment of a promise to someone who would want only the best for you.

Karen Katafiasz

#37. The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

Pittacus Lore

#38. Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

George W. Bush

#39. A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

Denis Avey

#40. Music tells a lot about a person. I don't have to have a memory to know that. - Charlize "Charlie" Wynwood

Tarryn Fisher

#41. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

John Donne

#42. But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality of a memory; there it was, before my eyes, and yet too beautiful to believe.

Donna Tartt

#43. Unconventional," said Jenkins. "What is conventional?" asked Andrew. "Living in a dream? Living for a memory? you must be weary of it." "Not

Clifford D. Simak

#44. You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Umberto Eco

#45. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

#46. One of her hands is slowly tracing up and down from my waist to my arm. The feel of her hands against my skin is something I never want to become a memory.

Colleen Hoover

#47. Memory is fiction ... All memory is a way of reconstructing the past ... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

Damon Galgut

#48. To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

Orhan Pamuk

#49. I know from experience that nothing can compete with a memory.

Tarryn Fisher

#50. A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

Paul Davies

#51. The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.

Kyriacos C. Markides

#52. Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.

Simone De Beauvoir

#53. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

Roxanne St. Claire

#54. There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Johnny Weir

#55. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#56. ...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: the
echo of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, a
burst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.

Alexia Casale

#57. A dreamory is a dream that's a memory.

Brownell Landrum

#58. This isn't me giving him a memory. This is me giving him my heart.

Katie McGarry

#59. He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way.

H.M. Ward

#60. So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived

Truman Capote

#61. And my dreams felt as real as a memory

Katie Alender

#62. They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#63. Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.

Rita Zahara

#64. She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ...

Ron Rash

#65. and all you have is a memory, and when you desperately want something more than a memory, every memory you've got left seems perfect.

Eliza Andrews

#66. The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable

Vince Lombardi

#67. After all, experiencing something is not the same as remembering it. A memory is by its nature a revision.

Jan Ellison

#68. She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

Banana Yoshimoto

#69. With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#70. Touch has a memory.

John Keats

#71. Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

Scarlett Thomas

#72. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.

Salman Rushdie

#73. It didn't take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

Ali Shaw

#74. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Philip K. Dick

#75. Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Bob Dylan

#76. Chax, I want this. If I am going to die, let me die with a memory that will make all other bad things irrelevant. Let me die knowing I was loved." -Kasadya

Karen Swart

#77. And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Andy Warhol

#78. Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#79. Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

Craig Thompson

#80. Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

Steven Bochco

#81. No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Oscar Wilde

#82. Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.

Kahlil Gibran

#83. Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

Jack Canfield

#84. For him, it appeared he could freeze
the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his
hands like water.

J.U. Scribe

#85. He hunched his shoulders and looked at the floor. With that movement, he entered the past. When he put on his jacket, kissed me again, and walked to the door, he was already a memory.

Siri Hustvedt

#86. The charm is in waiting... The fragrance of a hope... The sublimity of a dream... The eloquence of a silence... The resplendence of darkness... The heat of winter... The cold of summer... The flashback of a memory... The unliving of a moment...

Avijeet Das

#87. There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.

Lisa Graff

#88. There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Colum McCann

#89. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

#90. The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Vincent Van Gogh

#91. Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to.

Stanislaw Lem

#92. Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

Mark Lawrence

#93. Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

#94. Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

Thomas Middleditch

#95. It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

Mike Barnicle

#96. There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly a memory of itself.

David Levithan

#97. Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

Frederick Buechner

#98. Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

G.K. Chesterton

#99. But the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

Marcel Proust

#100. Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

Jeanette