Barbara Hurd Quotes

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

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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Lactantius
- Age
- Memory
- Adversity
Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lost
- Wander
- Those
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

Padma Lakshmi
- Up
- Time
- Weird
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

Ramana Maharshi
- Different
- Real
- Mind
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

Garry Trudeau
- Day
- Humans
- Interested
I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

Floyd Skloot
- Work
- Think
- Memory