Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Jonathan Safran Foer

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Naomie Harris

I don't remember my childhood very well at all, but my earliest memory is holding a man's hand as I was walking down the street at about 1ВЅ. I can still remember the shoes I was wearing, but I don't know who the man was or what the memory relates to.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

Og Mandino

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

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

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward...

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.

Peter Zumthor

In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.