Quotes About Remembering

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Steel not only had an elephant's memory, he had the ears to go along with it:

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Oh God, Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

we all know that the brain's retrieval system is amazingly efficient, except when you are trying to remember where you put your car keys.

Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.

It felt like the times were good, like we were remembering a time before Rachel died, even though things were never this good then, because they were just normal, and ordinary is never the kind if good you remember.

Sometimes, I find myself limping. It's as if my body remembers the way I walk with my mother. Memory is not always reliable. It is not the whole truth. Even I know that.

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

Dante's got the long term memory of a squirrel, Skye snickered. He is forever forgetting which of the acorns he buried were rotten.

Don't ever forget where God found you.

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Although false memory psychologists point to therapy sessions as the setting in which people commonly determine that they forgot, and then remembered, abuse. Elliott (1997) found that the majority of people who had forgotten a traumatic event and then remembered it identified the trigger as some form of media presentation, such as a film or a television show. Psychotherapy was the least common trigger for remembering trauma." KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY

Much later, she would go back and read the entry, and think to herself that memories were that way, too. When you wanted to forget, everything would return in raw, brutal focus. When you wanted to remember, the details would slip away like a dream at dawn.

it was always that way with the dead; they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions. All we could do was remember them, as much as we could remember them, whether it was accurate or not.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

As history teaches us, freedom is never forgotten by those who have known it, and then lost it.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ? or something tells it ? that the remembering can be handled.