Quotes About Memory

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

Memory narrativises itself.

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

White Americans have a short memory.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

We can invent only with memory.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.