Quotes About Memory

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.

I'd like to think I have good recall of games I've been a part of and plays I've been a part of.

I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think I was in the sixth grade at the time, so it probably wasn't assigned reading.

I lived with my grandmother for a year when I was very young, and even to this day, when I tell my mother events that took place, she can't believe that I can recall that far.

Romantic films have a greater recall value.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.

Once we receive education, we should be grateful for it, respect it, and remember what we learnt.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Our long memories hold the stories of what our people accomplished, but they also hold the prejudices, the injustices, the harm that we've received from others.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

It's a big responsibility, I think, when you play somebody who has existed but also somebody who has just recently passed away.

Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

If I'm doing a pavlova, for example, I need a recipe as I can't remember it well.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.