Quotes about Memory
A Late Walk - A Tree beside the wall stands bare, But a leaf that lingered brown, Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought, comes softly rattling down. I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower to carry again to you.
— Robert Frost
No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard Or keeps the end from being hard. Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!
— Robert Frost
First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.
— LM Montgomery
You won't mind if I talk a good deal about her, will you, Mistress Blythe? It's a pleasure to me--for all the pain went out of her memory years ago and jest left its blessing. -Captain Jim
— LM Montgomery
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.
— Charles Swindoll
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
— Elie Wiesel
A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, "I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed." Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day's activities and just before you go to sleep.
— Zig Ziglar
I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.
— Zig Ziglar
His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said softly.
— Denise Hunter
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
— Frederick Douglass
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
— Cicero