Memory Quotes

"The outstanding impression my mother has left on my memory is that of saintliness."

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Movies are the memories of our lifetime, we need to keep them alive."

Martin Scorsese

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you."

Neil Gaiman

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more."

William Wordsworth

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

Pablo Neruda

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right."

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“Repetition is the mother of learning.”

Latin Proverb

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.”

Lewis B. Smedes

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

Elie Wiesel

"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

Clifton Fadiman

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty."

Thomas Beecham

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

Rita Mae Brown