Memory Quotes

Memory is not what the heart desires.

J. R. R. Tolkien
- Heart
- Memory
- Desires
The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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.

Molly O'Keefe
That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

Catherynne M. Valente
- Memory
- Map
It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.

Benjamin E. Sasse
- Work
- Suffer
- Protected
Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.

Neal Bascomb
- Book
- History
- Memory
To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.

Edward Hallowell
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Susumu Tonegawa
- Process
- Memory
- Recorder