Memory Quotes
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Five decades later, it’s clear that the problem isn’t about race—it is nearly universal. The works of Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and J. D. Vance show that these tragic developments are not unique to any geographic or ethnic community. The share of white births occurring outside marriage is now roughly three in ten, which is higher than the “emergency” black rate in the 1960s. And although the teen pregnancy rate is down, the Urban Institute’s “Moynihan Report Revisited” pegs the overall share of black births now occurring outside marriage at more than seven in ten. Fourth, we have unhelpfully come to so identify our obligations to teenagers with the institution of secondary schooling that we have lost the collective memory of folks who came of age without schooling as the defining.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
Craig Lancaster
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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.
Bob Horner
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As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
Bessel van der Kolk
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There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.
Marcel Proust
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Alexandre Dumas
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For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.
Eric Newby
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana
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One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.
George Singleton
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Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
Haruki Murakami
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Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
Charles Dickens
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
Rick Perlstein
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
Alfred de Musset
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We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.
Rana Daggubati
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
