Quotes tagged ‘Memory’

“After I died, I began to surrender the parts of myself that were no longer necessary. My desires, beliefs, ambitions, doubts, every trace of my humanity was discarded. I discovered when moving through eternity, it helps to travel lightly. In fact, I held onto only one thing. My memory.”

— Oliver Goldstick, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“Rick: No, "Steve" put that memory in your brain so he could live in your house, eat your food and multiply. We could be infested with these things. So, we got to keep an eye out for any zany, wacky characters that pop up. Mr. Poopybutthole: Oooohwee! Whatever you want, Rick, we're here to help! Rick…”

— Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“There is no need to go through life handicapped by past experiences. What others say about you doesn’t matter. How they treated you is inconsequential.”

— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com

“Maybe, if we’re gonna remember Bourdain for one thing, it’s that open-hearted curiosity and humility, a willingness to be a perpetual student of the world, committed to using his platform to reveal the complexity and beauty of the human experience, one bite at a time.”

— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.”

— Anonymous, coastalliving.com

“From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“A man who possesses the art of correct reading will…instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing....The art of reading, as of learning, is this…to retain the essential, t…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Cicero, books.google.com

“I’ll remember today forever.”

— Bindi Irwin, instagram.com

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com

“Next, as for the Memory, or retentive faculty, we may be sufficiently instructed from the written Histories of civil actions, what great assistance may be afforded the Memory, in the committing to writing things observable in natural operations.”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“Even I fell into the most terrible of human traps...Trying to change what is already past.”

— Lisa Joy, Charles Yu, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“i hope my memory makes the teeth grit, makes the salt of your skin slide down razors. i hope i stain.”

— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com

“I want his three children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.”

— Al Sharpton, amazon.com

“Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly. Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

— Jim Henson, amazon.com

“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.””

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“[About the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 1963] One last happy moment I had was looking up and seeing Mary Griffith leaning out of a window waving at me. Then almost at the edge of town, on our way to the Trade Mart where we were going to have the luncheon, we were rounding a curve, goi…”

— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com