Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

George Jones

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Emily Ratajkowski

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Elliot Perlman

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Ellie Goulding

In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

Ellen Hopkins

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Ellen Hopkins

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

Ellen Hopkins

My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

Ellen Hopkins

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Ellen Hopkins

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

Joel Osteen

You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!

Lilli Palmer

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

Lil Wayne

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.

Lee Trevino

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

Lady Gaga

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

Lewis B. Smedes

Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

Lewis Carroll

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

Lewis Carroll

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Leon Uris

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

Josephine Hart

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

Julio Cortazar

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

Julio Cortazar

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Julio Cortazar

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Julio Cortazar

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...

Juliet Marillier

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

Juliet Marillier

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

Joy Harjo

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

Joy Harjo

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

Joy Harjo

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.