Quotes About Memory

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

Scoring at Old Trafford was a very nice feeling. A great memory and something I won't forget.

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

I can't remember what my first script was.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

I'm a last minute meticulous packer. I pack things mentally before actually doing it so I never forget anything.

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

I have to learn sometimes 25 pages at a time. The takes can last 20 minutes - we do big, long takes. You always hope that you get a couple of days in between so you can learn the next one because you can't keep everything in your head at the one time.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.