Quotes about Our Memory

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. Votes: 4

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Votes: 4

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. Votes: 4

Let your memory be your travel bag. Votes: 3

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Votes: 3

Nothing stands still, except in our memory. Votes: 3

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. Votes: 3

Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory. Votes: 3

We should use our imagination more than our memory. Votes: 3

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes. Votes: 3

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness. Votes: 3

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory. Votes: 3

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. Votes: 3

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Votes: 3

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. Votes: 3

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. Votes: 3

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. Votes: 3

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. Votes: 3

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. Votes: 3

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. Votes: 3

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. Votes: 3

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. Votes: 3

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. Votes: 3

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. Votes: 3

I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave. Votes: 3

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. Votes: 3

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. Votes: 3

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? Votes: 3

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams. Votes: 3

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. Votes: 3

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Votes: 3

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say... Votes: 3

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements Votes: 3

Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited. Votes: 3

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. Votes: 3

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. Votes: 3

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193 Votes: 3

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. Votes: 3

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. Votes: 3

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Votes: 3

You used to love me. Let me help jog your memory by buying you some running shoes. The shoes will be wooden, and nailed to the floor. Votes: 3

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks. Votes: 3

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. Votes: 3

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole. Votes: 3

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things. Votes: 3

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. Votes: 3

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things Votes: 3

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations. Votes: 3

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt. Votes: 3

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Votes: 3

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: 3

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. Votes: 3

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. Votes: 3

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. Votes: 3

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves. Votes: 3

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. Votes: 3

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. Votes: 3

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement. Votes: 3

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory. Votes: 3

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true. Votes: 3

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite. Votes: 3

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often? Votes: 3

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit. Votes: 3

If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser. Votes: 3

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings…. Votes: 3

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about. Votes: 3

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often? Votes: 3

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. Votes: 3

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Votes: 3

Only two kinds of feelings remain in our memory vividly: love and hate. Love recalls how many years we could live, but hate how many years we only existed wasting the given opportunities to live. Votes: 3

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done. Votes: 3

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. Votes: 3

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Votes: 3

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul. Votes: 3

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train. Votes: 3

That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? Votes: 3

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant. Votes: 3

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. Votes: 3

That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists. Votes: 3

Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you're going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now - pay attention to that and all will be well. Votes: 3

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love. Votes: 3

To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination. Votes: 3

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. Votes: 3

Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you? Votes: 3

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today. Votes: 3

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces. Votes: 3

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. Votes: 3

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. Votes: 3

Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. Votes: 3

Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. Votes: 3

To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long. Votes: 3

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. Votes: 3

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad. Votes: 3

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. Votes: 3

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought! Votes: 3

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved. Votes: 3

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory. Votes: 3

Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality. Votes: 3

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. Votes: 3

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Votes: 3

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. Votes: 3

We think of our future as anticipated memories. Votes: 2

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Votes: 2

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. Votes: 2

I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. Votes: 2

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Votes: 2

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 2

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. Votes: 2

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Votes: 2

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. Votes: 2

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. Votes: 2

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Votes: 2

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams. Votes: 2

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us. Votes: 2

It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other. Votes: 2

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 2

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer. Votes: 2

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least. Votes: 2

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst. Votes: 0

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes. Votes: 0

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. Votes: 0

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need. Votes: 0

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. Votes: 0

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. Votes: 0

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not. Votes: 0

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory. Votes: 0

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future. Votes: 0

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 0

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? Votes: 0

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. Votes: 0

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work. Votes: 0

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change. Votes: 0

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself. Votes: 0

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. Votes: 0

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. Votes: 0

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. Votes: 0

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. Votes: 0

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too. Votes: 0

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. Votes: 0

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. Votes: 0

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Votes: 0

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Votes: 0

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. Votes: 0

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us. Votes: 0

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. Votes: 0

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. Votes: 0

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Votes: 0

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) Votes: 0

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. Votes: 0

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives. Votes: 0

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know. Votes: 0

Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. Votes: 0

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. Votes: 0

Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo~? Votes: 0

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical. Votes: 0

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Votes: 0

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. Votes: 0

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. Votes: 0

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. Votes: 0

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. Votes: 0

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives. 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

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Votes: 0

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever. Votes: 0

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. Votes: 0

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house. Votes: 0

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. Votes: 0

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures Votes: 0

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. Votes: 0

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Votes: 0

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. Votes: 0

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. Votes: 0

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak. Votes: 0

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America. Votes: 0

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. Votes: 0

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. Votes: 0

Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free! Votes: 0

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. Votes: 0

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms. Votes: 0

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory. Votes: 0

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. Votes: 0

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. Votes: 0

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. Votes: 0

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have. Votes: 0

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? Votes: 0

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them. Votes: 0

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. Votes: 0

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. Votes: 0

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at. Votes: 0

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower. Votes: 0

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. Votes: 0

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. Votes: 0

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. Votes: 0

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. Votes: 0

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. Votes: 0

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence. Votes: 0

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. Votes: 0

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers Votes: 0

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. Votes: 0

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. Votes: 0

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good. Votes: 0

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Votes: 0

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories Votes: 0

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful." Votes: 0

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. Votes: 0

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. Votes: 0

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. Votes: 0

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. Votes: 0

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. Votes: 0

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory"” hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future. Votes: 0