Memories Quotes - Page 6

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Past, Elude You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• You never know when you're making a memory.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Aging, Incurable Disease, Short Memory

  Song: Young Blood, 1990

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Life, Chinese, Ink

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• Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Ronald Takaki

  Time, Equality, Air

  "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Integrity, Patriotic, Intelligence

  "The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

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• Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015

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• I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Years, Thousand, Ifs

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.76, Wesleyan University Press

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• The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

  Martha Beck

  Caring, Touching, Attention

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  Umberto Eco

  Past, Perspective, Reconstruction

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wall, House, Childhood

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• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Parent, Immortality

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

  Thomas Fuller

  Order, Complaining, Want

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• Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

  George Orwell

  Past, Years, Together

  1940 Inside theWhale,'My Country Right or Left'.

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Office, Distribution

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.279

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• We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

  Betty Williams

  Peace, Tragedy, Warning

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

  Frank Deford

  Photography, Eye, Light

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• What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

  S.J. Watson

  Moments, Accumulation, Ifs

  S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.164, Random House

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Carpe Diem, Vision, Wonderland

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

  Thomas Moore

  Light, Affection, Fond Memories

  'National Airs' (1815) 'Oft in the Stilly Night'

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• A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Hope, Littles

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• For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

  Rachel Carson

  Women, Smell, Use

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