Quotes about Memory

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory, of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, and airy tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

Me thought I saw my late espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember

Oh! God, my only trust went there Through all life's scenes before Lo! At the throne again I bow, New mercies to implore. Grant active power, grant fervent zeal, And guide by thy control, And ever be my country's weal The purpose of my soul. Extend, all seeing God, thy hand In memory still decree And make, to bless thy native land An instrument of me. -September 21, 1817

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.