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Quotes About Memory

That picture of me running down the beach - I'll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.
~ Kate Moss
I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.
~ Kurt Cobain
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.
~ Rumi
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~ Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.
~ Walter Cronkite
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
~ Dustin Hoffman
What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
~ Elie Wiesel
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
~ Thomas Hood
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
~ Abraham Polonsky
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
~ Alexander Smith
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I left my mark on that man.
~ Alice Sebold
.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
~ Anne Fortier
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
~ Anne Lamott
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.
~ Anthony Trollope
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
~ Anthony Trollope
If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
~ Aravind Adiga
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer