Memories Quotes - Page 23

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  Jack London

  San Francisco, Gone, Remains

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7702, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

  Christian Louboutin

  Mother, Years, Adults

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Imagining Yourself, Brain, Connections

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• Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

  Harvey Mackay

  Ink And Paper, Diaries, Pale

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

  Hilary Mantel

  Children, Grandmother, People

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

  Hilary Mantel

  Way, Chronology, Flash

  "Hilary Mantel: how I came to write Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

  Ricky Martin

  Beautiful, Dad, Father

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• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Men, Records

  Andre Maurois, S. C. Roberts (2014). “Aspects of Biography”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  Danica McKellar

  Dad, Father, Book

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• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  Jon Meacham

  Hunting, Rivers, Childhood

  "TEAM OBAMA BEGINS PLANNING $1 BILLION REELECTION CAMPAIGN - Party members may mix across aisle for State of the Union - Au revoir, Chairman Steele -- Taylor and Amy Gross have #3, a girl" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 14, 2011.

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• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Understanding, Stuff

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

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• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Venture

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• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Real, Historical, Stories

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Past, Acting

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• One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Beautiful, House, Opera

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• Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

  Max Muller

  Years, Feelings, Sad Feeling

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

  Max Muller

  Paradise, Pages, Firsts

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

  Max Muller

  Together, Forgotten, Breathe

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Father, War, Kids

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• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  Nas

  Strong, Rap, Sound

  "Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2009.

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Grandmother, Play, Piano

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• My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

  Steve Nash

  Team, Kids, Nba

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• My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think every person in the entire country is nice. Seriously, I haven't seen or heard of a mean person yet. And they love country music.

  Joe Nichols

  Beautiful, Country, Nice

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• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  Rachel Nichols

  Thinking, Body, Deja Vu

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