Quotes About Memory

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.

I exist only in the past.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

I met Paul Brown, and I will never forget it.

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.

I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

I felt like when I retired, I was still one of the best in the world and competing at the highest level. I think it's best to bow out and have people remember you at your peak.

'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.