Quotes About Memory

Some day I will be better remembered.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

What is memory? To remember is an effort and to forget, effortless. And some memories get etched so deep in our system that they are remembered effortlessly.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.