Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Memory

Memory

Back on its golden hinges
The gate of Memory swings,
And my heart goes into the garden
And walks with the olden things.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("Memory's Garden" Shells)
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.--Elizabeth Bowen
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.--Anonymous
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my fails.--Anonymous
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?--Ogden Nash ("Preface to the Past" You Can't Get There from Here)
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.--Jesse Ventura
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.--Bob Dylan
It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.--Joy Harjo (Conference)
It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.--Sidney Smith
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive ... that the mind might perform its functions without incumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.--Samuel Johnson (The Idler)
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now because it's in the past, because we have survived.--Susan Sontag
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.--Robert Fulghum
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.--Alexander Smith Dreamthorp ("On Death and the Fear of Dying" Dreamthorp)
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.--Charles Dudley Warner ("Fifth Study" Backlog Studies)
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.--Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!--Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.--Jessamyn West (The Life I Really Lived)
Money is spent and forgotten, while unforgettable memories live on.--Justine Kerfoot (Woman of the Boundary Waters)
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.--Richard Sheridan (The Rivals)
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.--Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book)
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.--Willa Cather
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.--Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses (in My Life's History by Kallir)
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.--Dag Hammarskjold (Markings)
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.--Benjamin Franklin
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)