Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

Justin Torres

Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Owen Wilson

The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

Paul McCartney

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

Pericles

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Pauley Perrette

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Paullina Simons

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Pierre Bonnard

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

Pierre Corneille

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Pierre Corneille

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

Philip Levine

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Pope Francis

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

Pope Francis

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us.

Pope Francis

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Rachael Taylor

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Ray

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

Rabindranath Tagore

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Pete Wentz

I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.

Paulo Coelho

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

Paulo Coelho

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Paulo Coelho

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

Paulo Coelho

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Paulo Coelho

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Peter Shilton

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Peter Matthiessen

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.