Quotes About Memory

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.