Quotes About Memory

a dream is only a memory of the future

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.