Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pauley Perrette

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Paullina Simons

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

Katharine McPhee

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Katharine Hepburn

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

Karen Maitland

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

Karen Joy Fowler

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

George MacDonald

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

George Jones

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Emily Ratajkowski

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Elliot Perlman

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Ellie Goulding

In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

Ellen Hopkins

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Ellen Hopkins

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

Ellen Hopkins

My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

Ellen Hopkins

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Ellen Hopkins

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Joel Osteen

You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!

Joan Baez

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

Jimmy Hoffa

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

Louise Hay

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.....

Lou Reed

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Lou Reed

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Lou Reed

They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

Lois Lowry

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

Lois Lowry

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Lois Lowry

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Lois Lowry

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Lois Lowry

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Manolo Blahnik

You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde [Kostiff] riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.

Madeleine Peyroux

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

Madeleine L'Engle

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta