Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Yourcenar

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

Marguerite Yourcenar

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

Mike Colter

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Miguel de Unamuno

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Miguel de Unamuno

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Miguel de Unamuno

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Ned Rorem

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Ned Rorem

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Ned Rorem

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Neil Armstrong

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Naomi Watts

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

Naomi Klein

People without memory are putty.

Mireille Mathieu

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Mireille Guiliano

The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.

Miroslav Volf

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

R. C. Sproul

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

Priscilla Presley

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

Pierre Loti

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Nelson Mandela

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Omar Suleiman

Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.

Oprah Winfrey

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

Olivia Newton-John

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

Olivia Wilde

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

Margaret Atwood

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge