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Quotes About Memory

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
~ Bill Gates
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
~ Dwight L. Moody
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
~ Keith Carter
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
~ Maureen Johnson
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.
~ Pascal Mercier
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
~ Peter O'Toole
Once upon a time' lasts forever.
~ Philip Pullman
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
~ Pierre Loti
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
~ Quincy Jones
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.
~ Emma Stone
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
~ Francois Rabelais
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
~ Graham Greene
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.
~ Irving Bacheller
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.
~ Robert Breault
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
~ Simone Weil
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
~ Stephen King
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
~ Steve Goodman
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.
~ Alexandra Potter
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
~ Alice Hoffman