Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Solnit

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Robert Glasper

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.

Robert Green Ingersoll

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done; when the sun touches the horion; when the purple twilight falls upon the past, the present, and the future; when memory, with dim eyes, can scarcely spell the blurred and faded records of the vanished days-then, surrounded by kindred and by friends, death comes like a strain of music. The day has been long, the road weary, and the traveler gladly stops at the welcome inn.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

Rudy Giuliani

And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.

Rudy Giuliani

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

Sandra Cisneros

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Samuel Johnson

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Samuel Johnson

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Samuel Johnson

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Samuel Johnson

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Samuel Johnson

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Samuel Johnson

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Samuel Johnson

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Samuel Johnson

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Samuel Johnson

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samantha Bond

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

Samantha Bond

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

Samantha Bond

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Sadie Jones

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

Ruzwana Bashir

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

Ryan Adams

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

Ruth Ozeki

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

Rumer Godden

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Rumer Godden

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Robert Jordan

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

Robert Jordan

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

William Harvey

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

William Hazlitt

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.