Quotes About Memory

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

Leo, " Jason said, "you're weird.""Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.

You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old!

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Are you sure you weren't adopted?""Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Memory feeds imagination.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.