Quotes About Memory

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

I would have taught her a les­son she wouldn't forget!

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Just like me in 2003, it looks like Brian Williams ended up "Between Iraq and a Hard Place.

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.

I have this condition I call impromptu senility. I can't remember a damn thing when I don't want to.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future