Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Caesar

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

Joyce Grenfell

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

Joyce Cary

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

Pamela Anderson

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

Oscar Wilde

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Oscar Wilde

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Kathy Acker

All memory can do is scream for touch.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

Kanye West

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Kami Garcia

the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

Kanye West

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

William Ellery Channing

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

William Faulkner

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

William Faulkner

Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

William Faulkner

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Whittaker Chambers

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Saint Francis de Sales

A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

Saint Augustine

By and by never comes.

Wislawa Szymborska

Memory at last has what I sought.

Wislawa Szymborska

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Wim Wenders

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

William Trevor

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

Will Rogers

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

W. C. Fields

I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face.

Virginia Woolf

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

Zadie Smith

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

Zora Neale Hurston

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.

Zachary Taylor

For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .

Yukio Mishima

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. Full of the glitter and the frenzy of night, the horn thundered in, conveying from the distant offing, from the dead center of the sea, a thirst for the dark nectar in the little room.

Zach Braff

I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.