Memory Quotes
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We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness.
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The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.
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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
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Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.
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Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
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It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay
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Euphoric memory. That’s what Adam called it. Some of you guys even get high remembering.
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Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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This is a way for his memory to be honored and have a presence in the movie.
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Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.
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I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.
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Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
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Observation is an old man's memory.
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Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.
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Memory is not what the heart desires.
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If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory.
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Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
