Quotes About Memory

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

As time passes, my story fades away.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

But really, he told himself. There are just some people who don't seem like they ever could have been young. It's like trying to imagine my grandparents as little kids. Or—like the guy who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. No way he was ever young.

It was hard having a dead hero for a best friend.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

Oh, yeah, the feather dusters!" Luke exclaimed. "I'd almost forgotten about that. Now, why in the world were you so scared of them? You didn't really think they could come back to life, did you?" Smits fixed Luke with a curious look. "Yes," he said. "I did. I didn't know what death was.

I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her

That's it!" cried Fizban. "I remembered!" Suddenly the air was filled with strands of sticky, floating cobweb.