Quotes About Memory

a battle-scarred veteran, bowed with age, would begin to remember the martial deeds of his youth and prime and be overcome as the past welled up in his wintry heart.

That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

Short-term memories were associated with synapses being strengthened, while long-term memories came from entirely new synapses being created.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life's all moments they are cherished by me

What business does memory have with time?

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.