Quotes about memories
memories real past
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing." Umberto Eco
memories regret grief
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. Richard Dawkins
memories men may
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room. Roger Ascham
memories imagination brain
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. Robin Wasserman
memories skulls water
Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains. Robin Ince
memories night men
It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again? Robin Hobb
memories simple thinking
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on? Robert Winston
memories distance past
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. Robert Nathan
memories military land
A land without memories is a people without liberty. Robert E. Lee
memories may amnesia
The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is. Robert Smithson
memories past reality
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. Robert Smithson
memories thinking champions-league
When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club Robert Pires
memories player games
For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good. Satoru Iwata
memories nice thinking
The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back. Sarah Sutton
memories blow wind
Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time Sarah McLachlan
memories ethnicity people
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity. Sara Paretsky
memories persistent distressing
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. Sara Gruen
memories spring joy
Memory, bosom-spring of joy. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
memories writing imagination
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
memories fall errors
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. Samuel Johnson
memories writing imagination
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce. Samuel Johnson
memories reality fancy
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Samuel Johnson
memories thinking people
I think it’s a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories, Sarah Polley
memories september-11 erase
No day shall erase you from the memory of time Virgil
memories space design
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations. Willard Gaylin
memories reality years
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again. Willa Cather
memories reality moments
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather
memories what-if ifs
What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it? Warren Ellis
memories home people
A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust. Warren Buffett
memories terrible concentrating
I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now. Vivienne Westwood
memories thinking glasses
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. Vincent Van Gogh
memories wheat-fields speak
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak. Vincent Van Gogh
memories rain bad-day
We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone. Vincent Van Gogh