Quotes about Memory
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.
- Mark Batterson
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.
- Mark Twain
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
- Winston Churchill
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
- Soren Kierkegaard
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
- Mark Vonnegut
Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.
- Martin Luther
A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: 1. Teach systematically 2. Have a ready wit 3. Be eloquent 4. Have a good voice 5. Have a good memory 6. Know when to make an end 7. Be sure of his doctrine 8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word 9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one
- Martin Luther
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
ugly, jagged scar that ran from the corner of his eye to his hairline just above his ear. He was glad he had it. A lifelong reminder of that awful day thirteen years ago and this treacherous cavern. He'd grown up fast. A breeze coming down across the
- Mary Connealy