Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Elie Wiesel

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Elie Wiesel

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Elie Wiesel

I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

Elie Wiesel

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Bruce Chatwin

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

Bruce Catton

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

Brian Greene

I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

Brian Greene

The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

Brett Ratner

There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Argus Hamilton

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Barbara Kruger

Memory is your image of perfection.

Barbara Kingsolver

...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...

Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In memory Venice is always magic.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Ashley Rickards

I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.

Benjamin Graham

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Bruce Springsteen

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

Brian Sibley

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Brian Jacques

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

Brian Jacques

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

Brenda Ueland

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

Brad Paisley

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.

Brad Meltzer

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

Brad Meltzer

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

Jane Hamilton

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

Jan Timman

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

James Vincent McMorrow

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.