Memory Quotes
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson -
They had a sort of quiet insistence that you keep alive the memory of those who marked the path.
Dave Anderson
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I keep that memory somewhere inside me—where it’s safe. I take it out and look at it when I need to. As if it were a photograph.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
Michel Foucault -
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb -
Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein -
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.
Ben Mikaelsen -
Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
Ma Jun -
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
Walter Isaacson -
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Fidel Castro
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
Yvonne Strahovski -
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
Iggy Azalea -
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
The circus leaves a sweet memory.
Fernando Botero -
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax -
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
Natasha Trethewey
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To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
George Eliot -
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Gaston Bachelard -
Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.
Emily Dickinson -
I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.
Stephen Curry