Quotes of: Memory Keyword

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame de Stael

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Chris Cooper

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Mireille Mathieu

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Burton

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Umberto Eco

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

Aminatta Forna

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Edith Wharton

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Frank Deford

Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)

Faith Mortimer

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

Fish

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Haruki Murakami

Sitting alone... where we usually used to sit... n looking behind those memories , we enjoyed together.....

Himangshu Rabha

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Emma Donoghue

A song rises up from the belly of my past and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

Brenda Sutton Rose