Quotes about Memory

Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders

Her husband remains, in my memory, undefined. I lumped him with all the other white men that I had ever seen and tried not to see.

He turned his back and went through the door into the cool beyond. Momma backed up inside herself for a few minutes. I forgot everything except her face which was almost a new one to me. She leaned over and took the doorknob, and in her everyday soft voice she said, "Sister, go on downstairs. Wait for me. I'll be there directly.

Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.