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Quotes About Memory

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
~ Myrtle Reed
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
~ Ned Beauman
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
~ Nick Hornby
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
~ Nick Hornby
So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.
~ Pete Docter
It takes good memory to keep up a lie
~ Pierre Corneille
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
~ Quintilian
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
~ Richie Benaud
(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. 'Member me? (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
~ Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
~ Sophocles
Good God, what did he not remember?
~ Tammara Webber
I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.
~ Tim Rice
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
~ Art Buchwald
I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.
~ Xabi Alonso
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
~ George Herbert
Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.
~ Ten Bears
The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.
~ Shepard Fairey
Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
~ Virginia Woolf
Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.
~ Homer
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
~ Rene Char
I have a great memory.
~ Carol Burnett
Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
~ Rodman Philbrick