Quotes about memories
memories mind age
I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind W. S. Gilbert
memories believe men
Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him. W. H. Auden
memories faces steps
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place; W. H. Auden
memories kids goal
When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals." Wayne Gretzky
memories smell important
Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security. Tove Jansson
memories people would-be
Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering. Vasily Grossman
memories twilight sadness
Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn. Van Morrison
memories real treasure
The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you Rodman Philbrick
memories book looks
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. Robertson Davies
memories light awful
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! Robert Southey
memories writing names
I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign my name. I tried to write the other day-it looked like I was writing in Braille. Robert Pattinson
memories tree ancestry
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. Robert Louis Stevenson
memories forget
I've a grand memory for forgetting. Robert Louis Stevenson
memories men should
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. Robert Louis Stevenson
memories first-love sea
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. Robert Louis Stevenson
memories class identity
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. Robert Louis Stevenson
memories men mind
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. Robert Emmet
memories three-sides
Memories shared serve each one differently. Robert Evans
memories lying your-side
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently. Robert Evans
memories thinking risk
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. Wesley Clark
memories rivers understanding
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness. Wally Lamb
memories ideas brain
In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory. Vissarion Belinsky
memories life-and-death midst
Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well. Walt Whitman
memories wreaths unions
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it. Walt Whitman
memories doors needs
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. Saul Bellow
memories party guests
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. Sarah Churchwell
memories heart hands
And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart. Sarah Dessen
memories together pieces
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story. Sarah Dessen
memories perfect cracks
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see. Sarah Dessen
memories stills ifs
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined. Sarah Dessen
memories fear real
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real. Sarah Dessen
memories children parent
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory. Sandra Bullock
memories paris nostalgia
Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories. Rosecrans Baldwin