Memory Quotes
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For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.
Ellen Meloy
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I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.
Ed Gass-Donnelly
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I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
Bill Gates
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana
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Memory is a funny thing. Makes you remember things that didn't really happen and forget things that did. I'm so scared I'll forget because if I forget all these things that happened then there will be no one on earth who remembers them.
Nicole Blackman
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
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Collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.
Bart Ehrman
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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
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A bad memory is the mother of invention.
Gerald Brenan
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
Elizabeth Wein
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Bram Stoker
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But past service counted for little these days. The world, and those who governed it, moved too quickly to be carrying such burdens as memory and gratitude.
Brian Ruckley
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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
John Locke
Nazareth
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
Joe Bonamassa
Black Country Communion
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There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Red Skelton
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The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.
Lao Tzu
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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
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
Miguel de Cervantes
