Quotes about memories
memories children book
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past. Rachel Field
memories women smell
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. Rachel Carson
memories integrity perfect
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. Rabindranath Tagore
memories second-chance humanity
Good memories are our second chance at happiness. Queen Elizabeth II
memories
What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness? Julian Barnes
memories believe events
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. Julian Barnes
memories imperfection documentation
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. Julian Barnes
memories children kids
I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children. Josie Bissett
memories book creating
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family. Josie Bissett
memories children house
Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didnt have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house. Josie Bissett
memories self play
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. Josiah Royce
memories powerful flower
Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly. Joss Whedon
memories japan gold
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. Kohei Uchimura
memories remembers-everything looks
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? Kevin J. Anderson
memories father men
It is the same for all men. None of us can escape this shadow of the father, even if that shadow fills us with fear, even if it has no name or face. To be worthy of that man, to prove something to that man, to exorcise the memory of that man from every corner of our life--however it affects us, the shadow of that man cannot be denied. Kent Nerburn
memories heart purple
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves. Keith Miller
memories collective-memory history
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
memories odds identity
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists. Ralph Ellison
memories home childhood
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. Rachel Stevens
memories volunteer personality
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories light meditation
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories adventure writing
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories rely seems
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories intelligent men
Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories lying exercise
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories clouds assuming
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories might causes
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories power men
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories book men
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories mind matter
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories light soul
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are. Ralph Waldo Emerson
memories water arguing
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory. Scarlett Thomas
memories ocean mean
I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return. Laurie Halse Anderson