Memory Quotes

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

John Updike

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

Pierce Harris

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

George Santayana

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward de Bono

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.

William Herbert Carruth

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

John Locke