Memory Quotes

• He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Memory
  • Hearts
  • Eliminates

• I write to breathe life back into memory.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Life
  • Breathe
  • I Write

• My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Father
  • First
  • Guitar

• The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

  

  George Eliot
  • Memory
  • Moods
  • Diorama

• Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

  

  Anna Funder
  • Memory
  • Reveals
  • Alters

• Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Change
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Organization

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

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • Remember
  • Memory
  • Older

• Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Memory
  • Frailty

• When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Interest
  • Memory
  • Lose

• Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.

  

  Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Memory
  • Events
  • Sequence

• The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

  

  Brad Mehldau
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Suppose

• Now these battles too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of the fresh ones. We--by this I mean those youth of this land who are capable of enthusiasm for an ideal--will not shrink from them. We stand in the memory of the dead who are holy to us, and we believe ourselves entrusted with the true and spiritual welfare of our people. We stand for what will be and for what has been. Though force without and barbarity within conglomerate in sombre clouds, yet so long as the blade of a sword will strike a spark in the night may it be said: Germany lives and Germany shall never go under!

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Believe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Germany

• I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Business
  • Organization
  • Sense

• When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • Changes

• Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memory you do not wish to go with others.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Memory
  • Reasons
  • Attached

• How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Word
  • Memory
  • Cleaned

• Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Exercise
  • Memory
  • Judgment

• I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

  

  George Eliot
  • Memory
  • Childish
  • Nest

• My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Forget
  • Name
  • Memory

• I have a very precise memory of the local train, the hot bricks and copper boxes filled with boiling water to warm us up. Someone in another compartment was playing the guitar. To the rhythm of the train's rocking movement, I heard the chorus "Porque yo to quiero, porque yo to quiero," and I traveled toward my Tonio telling myself, "Because I love you ... because I love you.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Love
  • You
  • Train

• The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Memory
  • Creating
  • Pop Song

• Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.

  

  Anthony Lawlor
  • Building
  • Memory
  • Fragments

• I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Learned
  • Experienced
  • Isolation

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