Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
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
Frank Deford 
Vladimir Nabokov 
Edith Stein 
Jack Kilby 
Marcel Proust 
George Herbert All Memory Quotes
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
Vernon L. Smith 
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
Michel Patini
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois
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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Morgan Freeman
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
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To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
Thomas Harrison
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Popular Memory Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli PlatoAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaThomas Fuller
Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusGertrude SteinRobert FrostElbert HubbardOliver Wendell HolmesRichard M. NixonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelairePierre Corneille
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