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Quotes About Remembering

The Mind of a Mnemonist
~ Temple Grandin
She remembers that she is forgetting. She remembers less and less every day.
~ Julie Otsuka
She remembers that she is forgetting.
~ Julie Otsuka
We ask Your help in remembering to practice an attitude of gratitude today and every day. —suzanne c. cole
~ June Cotner
He never makes notes, he just remembers it all, like a barmaid.
~ K.J. Parker
This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
~ Francine Rivers
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.
~ Francois Rabelais
You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.
~ Franny Billingsley
There is a French adage, "To understand everything is to forgive everything." When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive. Yes, one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.
~ Frederick Forsyth
I am glad that some in Zhong have considered those deeds worth remembering outside of children's tales." Meilin reddened slightly. "I heard about that from my nanny, not my instructors.
~ Brandon Mull
Kaladin's anxiety began to subside, and he pushed through the worst of the darkness. He always emerged on the other side. Why was that so difficult to remember while in the middle of it?
~ Brandon Sanderson
That's Australia. She's not dim-witted, she just has trouble remembering to be smart.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The reason why it is difficult to tell it is because I remember too much.
~ Henry Miller
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
~ Royce Gracie
I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.
~ L.M. Fields
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case.
~ Stephen Wolfram
What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.
~ Evan Spiegel
All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering—who we are, where we came from, how nature works.
~ Michael Pollan
It should also be pointed out that some of the strains of smart mice were exceptionally timid compared to normal mice. Some suspect that, if your memory becomes too great, you also remember all the failures and hurts as well, perhaps making you hesitant. So there is also a potential downside to remembering too much.
~ Michio Kaku
Your nature is to love; remember your nature. If you are acting against your nature, you're pretending to be another species. You've pretended so long that you actually are another species. Awareness means seeing, and remembering, the truth—it never went away. It never was gone, but your attention has been on the lies.
~ Miguel Ruiz