Quotes About Memory

If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

The first perfume I remember actually having myself is Daisy.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

What legacy can I leave behind to everybody that they will remember me?

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.

I would say people remember me from 'Life Goes On' more than anything.

Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.

You might remember me from Eminem's rap lyrics.

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.