Quotes with -memory

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  • C. C. H. Pounder When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Benigno Aquino III When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • John Updike When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Keats Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bob Dylan With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Elie Wiesel Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!
    It cannot trace
    Either your name or your face
    Nobody knows you're still living.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Great hymn of thanksgiving [Grosser Dankchoral] (1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bernhard Langer You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Fuller 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
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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