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Quotes About Memory

The closer you get to your past the sooner you realize it was never present
~ Bluenscottish
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
~ Karl Lagerfeld
In every life, there is always a journey that is unforgettable and a path that can never be traced.
~ Auliq Ice
I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
~ Noel DeJesus
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".
~ D.A. Botta
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.
~ Belle Starr
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
~ James O'Barr
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
~ Liane Moriarty
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~ William Wordsworth
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
~ James Mackintosh
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
~ Marcel Proust
To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.
~ Maureen Connolly
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~ W. S. Merwin
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.
~ Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
~ Jerome Bruner
My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.
~ Henny Youngman
Old teachers never die, they just grade away.
~ Henny Youngman
Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings .
~ John Philip Newell
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
~ William James
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
~ Bobby Womack