Quotes About Memory

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever?

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever live in people's hearts.

What you need, is an Event, to remember for a lifetime.

Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Each of us will be remembered, either by those close to us or by those who have benefited from the greater good which we have done.

Sadly, we can't live forever. But we can write something that will.

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.