Quotes About Memory

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

The music, once admitted to the soul, becomes also a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. Now at times, then, these phantoms of sound floated back upon her fancy; if gay, to call a smile from every dimple; if mournful, to throw a shade upon her brow, — to make her cease from her childishmirth, and sit apart and muse.

I collect the walks of my life. Some people have asked me if I have walked so very far to merit such an activity, but I say to them, it's not about how far you have walked, but how thoroughly.

When the image of her comes up on a sudden—just as my bad demons do—and I see again her dyed henna hair, the eyes dwarfed by the electric lights in the Star Lady Barber Shop, and the dear, broken wing of her mouth, and when I regard her wild tatters, I know that not even Solomon in his lilied raiment was so glorious as my mother in her rags. Selah.

Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.

Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind.

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

Someone remembers, someone cares; Your name is whispered in someone's prayers.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.

I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.

Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big.

My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember.

When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.