Quotes About Memory

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

I don't remember the last time I drove. I'd rather be a passenger unless I'm somewhere beautiful.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

It [the self] is rather a process, continuously created and recreated in each social situation that one enters, held together by the slender thread of memory.

Ask yourself whether the letter K appears more often as the first or as the third letter of English words. You will probably answer that it appears more often as the first letter. Actually, K appears as the third letter twice as often. Why the error? We find it easier to recall words with a certain letter at the beginning than words with that same letter somewhere else.

How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else...

The only difficulty with this, is that nothing can be completely forgotten. Every single thing that happens to us makes its mark on our minds and, even if we consciously cannot recall it, it will still influence us to some—possibly minor or possibly major—extent.

You mean..." Billy exclaimed at last, "you mean..." – his voice rose high and clear – "you mean..." – and he jumped to his feet, and standing there under the giant trees, pointed at himself, a small outraged boy named William Martin Quarrier, aged eight: "You mean I just came crashing down into Ma's under-pants?

his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Helen Shapiro was singing "Lipstick on Your Collar." Hurst turned off