Memory Quotes
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If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses Even as her words cut deep, I can't deny the truth in them On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly So directionless, I head into oblivion And then I decide to give another random memory To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea Oh Isabell, you always understood me Please Isabell, forgive me now
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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
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Memory is the basis of every journey.
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I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
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We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.
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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
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It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
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It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
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A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.
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The older you get, things like this become special. You value every moment and memory you have. When somebody bestows an award like this on you, you reflect. It's pretty special.
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Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.
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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.
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I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.
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One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.
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Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.
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Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
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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.
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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
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True love rules especially through memory.
