Quotes About Memory

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get over them. So it's important to go back and relive those feelings in order to remember how important those events were to us.

I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.

The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.

Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11, it remains the most poleaxeing public event, news so shocking it made me shake, and drove everything else from my mind for days.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

My life is mine to remember.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Does anyone remember laughter?

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.