Memories
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.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: Memories, Preserves
Nothing lasts forever, but at least we’ve got these memories.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Famous, Forever, Meaningful, Memories
I must have been 12 years old. I remember it was raining. We passed by the National Gallery, and that wonderful pink marble, in the rain it gets a very rich rose. I remember looking up and saying to my parents, ‘That’s the kind of job I would like to have some day.
Author: J. Carter BrownTopics: Childhood, Famous, Memories, National gallery, Parents, Past aspirations
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart
Author: Thomas FullerTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Mind, Visible
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Intellect, Lives, Meaningful, Memories, Tongue
I think my fondest memories would be with Sting, and Steamboat, Dusty and erÂ… I made a lot of money wrestling Wahoo McDaniel and Jack Mulligan too. ItÂ’d be hard to pinpoint one.
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Dusty, Memories, Money, Think
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Children, Eyes, Famous, Father, Imitation, Memories, Minds, Mother, Stronger
I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when I read it as a kid.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Childhood, Famous, Kid, Memories, Read
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Good, Memorial Day, Memories, Refreshing
I grew up with the ‘Star Wars’ movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Family, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Memories, People, Positive
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Forever, Memories, Time
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases…
Author: Jimmy BuffettTopics: Famous, Memories
One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I’d have done even worse if they’d been on a laptop screen.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: College, Famous, Feelings, Laptop, Lecture, Memories, Screen
He knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood brother toward the place from where the call surely came. Old memories were coming upon him fast, and he was stirring to them as of old he stirred to the realities of which they were the shadows. He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Brother, Memories, Running, Shadows
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Memories, Nothing
Little remnants from everywhere I’ve been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I’ve also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Famous, Guitars, Hobby, Home, Mementos, Memories, Rock, Stones, World
Every once in a while, we’d ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
Author: Kalpana ChawlaTopics: Dad, Famous, Memories, Past experiences, Plane, Ride
The beauty of baseball lies in its ability to bring people together and create lasting memories.
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Ability, Bring, Bringing hope, Capable, Lack, Lack of Awareness, Memorial, Memories, Memorise, Together, Togetherness
As my brother and I get older and busier, I really cherish the time we spend together.
Author: Kaia GerberTopics: Brother, Cherish, Famous, Memories, Moments, Myself., Old, Time, Together
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
Author: Kai BirdTopics: Childhood, Famous, Fragrance, Jerusalem, Love, Memories, Middle East, Modernity, Streets
My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Childhood, Dad, Famous, Memories, Scolding, Study
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Childhood, Crazy, Famous, Local, Memories, Mom, Newspapers, Story
Memories are precious … they help tell us who we are.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Famous, Memories, Personal Identity
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Famous, Memories, Moods, Old things, Rejoicing, Sea, Waves
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Childhood, Famous, Fear, Memories, Sadness, Unhappy
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Bring, Childhood, Famous, Fear, Memories, Sadness, Unhappy
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Famous, Memories, Possibilities, Realities
Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Famous, Make, Memories, Merciful
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Dreams, Famous, Memories, Mountains, Ocean, Time
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Dreams, Famous, Inspirational, Memories
You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.
Author: Gabrielle ZevinTopics: Famous, Love, Memories, New, Relationship
My kids that’s their backyard. I think when they’re adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.
Author: Gabrielle ReeceTopics: Famous, Kids, Memories, Ocean
Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don’t forget a thing. Move on.
Author: Gabrielle ReeceTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Memories, Moving on
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Lose, Memories, Old age, People, Triumph
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories, Never, Real
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Experiences, Famous, Memories, Rotten, Space
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun’s rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life–and over all is God’s truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, God willing, Heart, Heart disease, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Melting, Members, Memorial, Memories, Passes, Passing, Passionate, Truth
No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
Topics: Dead, Famous, Forever, Inspirational, Meaningful, Memories, YearsNo matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Enduring, Famous, Inspirational, Irreplaceable, Memories, Past experiences, Resilience, Significance
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Memories
He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Endures, Famous, Good, Heavy burden, Memories, Past
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Famous, Land, Liberty, Memories, People
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.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Alive, Fight, Figure, Forget, Guilty, Member, Memories, Memorization
When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I’m going to the concert, but I’m really going for the corn.
Author: Sabrina CarpenterTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Course, Ending, Endless Claims, Magnet, Magnificent, Member, Memories, Memorization, Real Consequences, Source, Source of energy, Source of inspiration
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Author: Steven Alexander WrightTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories
If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we’d be nothing left but the dreams we made.
Author: Selena Marie GomezTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories
I know it breaks your heart To picture the only one you wanna love In someone else’s arms, but I wouldn’t have done
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Done, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Heart, Heart disease, Inspirational, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Pictures, Someone
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Memorize, Past accomplishments, Past experiences
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Give, Give away, God, God willing, Human experience, Key, Members, Memories, Passions, Past, Today, Together
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Author: Coco ChanelTopics: Famous, Feelings, Insist, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Memory, Origin, Originality
Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Author: Eckhart TolleTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Memories, Thoughts
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Famous, Joy, Meaningful, Memories, Misery, Sadness
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Flowers, Forgiveness, Gold, Limpest personality, Link, Memories, Memorization, Memory
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Famous, Legends, Meaningful, Memories, Remember
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
Author: Michel de MontaigneTopics: Excellent, Famous, Meaningful, Memories
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Author: George EliotTopics: Famous, Feel, Human souls, Joined, Memories, Strengthen, Support System, Unspeakable
There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‘I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.
Author: George BestTopics: Everywhere, Famous, Memories, Restaurant
Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindnesses to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unavailing regrets and remorse were being indulged: and best of all, the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned. This was fine. It was worth being a pirate, after all.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Memories, Worth
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories, Words
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: Famous, Irrational, Meaningful, Memories, People, Poetry, Unconscious
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Author: Bob DylanTopics: Keep, Little Things, Live, Memories
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight!
Author: Marcel ProustTopics: Exist, Famous, Feelings, Ideas, Meaningful, Memories, Moods, Possesses, Virtue, Voyage
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people’s lives and change and lift them up.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Famous, Jesus, Life, Living, Meaningful, Memories, Powerful
Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
Author: Neil GaimanTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Memories
Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life’s baggage.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Memories
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories
Author: Ariana GrandeTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Happening, Knowledge, Life, Love, Meaningful, Memories, Positive, Realization, Really
Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don’t even miss them. I’ve outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.
Author: Anne FrankTopics: Famous, Feelings, Lasting Memories, Life, Looking, Meaningful, Memories, Past experiences, School
Memories mean more to me than dresses
Author: Anne FrankTopics: Dressed, Famous, Feelings, Life, Mean, Memories
I suppose I’m very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life… not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Enjoy, Family, Famous, Life, Memories, Things, Time
Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes
Author: Andy WarholTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Heart, Inspirational, Lasting Memories, Life, Memories, Song
Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Connection, Famous, Homeland, Life, Memories, Sense of belonging
My sister’s first-born child, I’m gonna take that too with me. My grandmother’s last smile, I’m gonna take that too with me. It’s a beautiful life, remember that too for me.
Author: Lana Del ReyTopics: Cherish, Emotion, Experiences, Famous, Importance, Life, Memories, Moment
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Memory, Men, Mentally Strong, Political, Politician
How vast a memory has Love
Author: Alexander PopeTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Love, Meaningful, Memories, Memory
The memory of a good deed lives
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Good Life, Inspirational, Leads, Learned, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Memories, Memory, Positive
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Member, Memories, Mentally Strong, Positive, Superman, Support, Surroundings, Survival
We are all shaped from memories we have as young people.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Memories, Positive, Young
How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
Author: Lady BirdTopics: Famous, Feelings, Fortunate, Lucky, Memories, Treasure
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
Author: L'Wren ScottTopics: Famous, Lasting Memories, Memories, Moment, Real-Life, Vibrancy, Vivid Experiences
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaning, Memories, Mentality, Mission
I’m not just making songs; I’m crafting experiences
Author: A Boogie wit da HoodieTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Memories, Music, Own
I’m making music that I want to hear. I’m my own biggest fan.
Author: A Boogie wit da HoodieTopics: Achievement, Courage, Famous, Fan, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Memories, Mentally Strong, Music
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. They can be lost forever.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Famous, Forever, Meaningful, Memories, Particles, Quantum Physics, Recycle, Science