Quotes About Becoming A Memory

#1. I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.

Cassandra Clare

#3. So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Kristin Hannah

#4. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

#5. The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.

James Howard Kunstler

#6. In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

Edouard Manet

#7. Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Frank Herbert

#8. If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

Jim Rohn

#9. Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Alex George

#10. The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else.

Tim Pratt

#11. I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

Paul Haggis

#12. Moments go by in your life, becoming memories, and once the people who were apart of them are gone, so is the magic of the memory. A memory once told with laughter or detail, fades into a story long forgotten, like an ancestor remembered only by name.

Erin Waters

#13. She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back ... so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan

Melissa De La Cruz

#14. The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

Alfred Hitchcock

#15. Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

Ilchi Lee

#16. Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Anonymous

#17. EllaTheRealHero : You wouldn ' t know normal if it bit you on your ridiculously good-looking face.
Cinder458 : You ' ve never seen my face. How do you know it ' s good-looking?
EllaTheRealHero : Because no ugly person could have an ego as big as yours.

Kelly Oram

#18. Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Judith Viorst

#19. My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

Natasha Trethewey

#20. Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

Tana French

#21. The best thing she was, was her children.

Toni Morrison

#22. Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Alfred Jarry

#23. Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. ... It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

Joan D. Chittister

#24. And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

#25. HIPPOLYTA

But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy,
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

William Shakespeare

#26. Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

Barbara Hurd