Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~By William Godwin ~
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
~By Malcom X ~
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.
~By Jim Bolger ~
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
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.
~By Richard Burton ~
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
~By Alice Munro ~
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
~By Anatole France ~
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~By Ray Charles ~
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
~By Justin Kaplan ~
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~By Aeschylus ~
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
~By John Hersey ~
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
~By John Henry Newman ~
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
~By Judy Collins ~
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
~By Gene Fowler ~
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
~By Earl Hines ~
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
~By Iggy Pop ~
It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
~By Bob Kane ~
His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.
~By Robert Welch ~
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~By Josh Billings ~
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
~By Henry Cantwell Wallace ~
My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
~By John Regan ~
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
~By John Doolittle ~
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
~By George Eliot ~
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
~By Aubrey de Vere ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
~By Tom Glazer ~
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
~By Philip Levine ~
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
~By Michel Patini ~
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
~By Alice Meynell ~
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
~By John Dewey ~
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
~By Roald Dahl ~
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
~By Marcel Proust ~
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
~By Dee Hock ~
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
~By Anthony Bourdain ~
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
~By Kay Boyle ~
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
~By John Henry Carver ~
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~By Aeschylus ~
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
~By Tom Waits ~
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
~By Cesar Romero ~
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
~By Lord Acton ~
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
~By Mary McAleese ~
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
~By James Howell ~
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
~By Robert Emmet ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
~By Nathaniel Parker Willis ~
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
~By George Sutherland ~
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
~By Candice Bergen ~
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
~By George Herbert ~
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
~By Warren Zevon ~
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
~By Edward Levi ~
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
~By Bob Woodward ~
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
~By Rick Moody ~
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
~By Spencer Abraham ~
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~By Richard Whately ~
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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