Quotes About Memory

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

I think all writing is done through memory.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

My memory's bad!

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

My greatest inspiration is memory.