Quotes about Memory and Place

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories. Votes: 3

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location. Votes: 3

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. Votes: 2

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory. Votes: 2

Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering. Votes: 2

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable. Votes: 2

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that. Votes: 2

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place. Votes: 2

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in. Votes: 2

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. Votes: 2

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk. Votes: 2

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. Votes: 2

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. Votes: 2

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones. Votes: 2

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. Votes: 2

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. Votes: 2

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. Votes: 2

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. Votes: 2

When I was 5, 6 - so you know, memories aren't that great - I remember coming home and I remember seeing all of our belongings on the street and a Salvation Army truck picking them up. We got taken to a shelter. And then we moved around a lot, finding places to stay. Votes: 2

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory. Votes: 2

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory. Votes: 1

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. Votes: 1

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place; Votes: 0

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. Votes: 0

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. Votes: 0

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar. Votes: 0

I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot. Votes: 0

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments. Votes: 0

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. Votes: 0

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. Votes: 0

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory. Votes: 0

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be. Votes: 0

There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory. Votes: 0

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory. Votes: 0

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts. Votes: 0

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal. Votes: 0