Memories Quotes - Page 39

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

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

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Women and elephants never forget.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.