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Memory

«It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver (Activist, Writer) | About: Memory | Keywords: surprising, unnoticed
«If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.»
Author: E. Joseph Cossman | About: Memory | Keywords: one year, recall, worrying
«For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time»
«Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.»
«Hunger steals the memory»
Author: Louise Erdrich (Poet, Writer) | About: Hunger, Memory | Keywords: steals
«I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don?t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.»
«God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie (Dramatist, Novelist) | About: God, Memory | Keywords: December, gave, roses
«I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.»
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«I find myself having these conversations where I go...?You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.? And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | About: Memory

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