Quotes about Memory

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

In every parting there is an image of death.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

There are places in which things don't change. These are a substitute for one's memory.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. "Well," he said slowly.

There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. [From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.