Quotes About Memory

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.