Quotes About Memory

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

One is always at home in one's past.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

memory is the only way home.

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.