Quotes About Important Memories

#1. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud? ... the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.

Douglas Coupland

#3. Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

Haruki Murakami

#4. Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today ... pictures are being used for talking.

Evan Spiegel

#5. There is nothing wrong with working on important individual milestones as long as you understand that they may not be the memories you treasure 25 years from now.

Tom Rath

#6. Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?

Daniel Gilbert

#7. It's important to dress our children well. I have some wonderful memories from my childhood, and so much is associated with what I was wearing. If you look good, you feel good - simple.

Marie-Chantal Claire

#8. Memories are important," he said.
"But it hurts, Magnus. Thinking about her makes me ache.

Cassandra Clare

#9. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

Henry Louis Gates

#10. She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.

Genevieve Cogman

#11. I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

Jello Biafra

#12. RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

Dave Barry

#13. My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

Mary Engelbreit

#14. Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

Gloria Gaither

#15. Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

Paul Kearney

#16. Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

John Desmond Bernal

#17. You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.

Gosho Aoyama

#18. A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

Warren Buffett

#19. Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

Dave Brenner

#20. The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Terry Pratchett

#21. It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.

Jeffrey A. Wands

#22. Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

Tove Jansson

#23. Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Julia Child

#24. Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

Nido R. Qubein

#25. Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

Bernhard Langer

#26. Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

Jesse Jackson

#27. But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us

Anna Smaill

#28. You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past. Don't let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new ones.

Emily Coussons

#29. All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Diane Ackerman

#30. I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Isabel Allende

#31. I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Miley Cyrus

#32. History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Henry Steele Commager

#33. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Virginia Woolf

#34. The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves ... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

#35. We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.

Robin Lee

#36. To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

Oscar Milosz

#37. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

Robert Pires

#38. Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.

Maya Tiwari

#39. But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?

Thomas L. Friedman

#40. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

Harriet Evans

#41. Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

Galen Rowell

#42. I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

Josie Bissett

#43. 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

#44. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

#45. My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

Nan Goldin

#46. 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

#47. Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

Grandma Moses

#48. It was the nature of things, of course. Life went on. The best you could do was to hold on to the memories that were important to you, so that even if everyone else forgot, you would remember.

Terry Brooks

#49. Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#50. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#51. Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories - their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories.

Virginia Morell

#52. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#53. Belief is all-important in what we do.

You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories.

Kieron Gillen

#54. As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

Robert Breault

#55. She'd seen it with Isabelle, the way things could become so permeated with memories that story was more important than function.

Erica Bauermeister

#56. Biting my lip, I trace the cigarette-butt scars along Jeb's bared torso. I've often wished he could replace all those bad memories with the good ones we've made together since. But now, more than ever, I realize how important every memory is, bad or good, because they shape who we become.

A.G. Howard

#57. What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Tony Dungy