Memories Quotes

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

No road is long with good company.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

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

Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility

Without memory there are no worries.

A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.