Quotes about Memory
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
- Jesse Jackson
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
- Wendell Berry
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
- Cicero
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
- Vincent Van Gogh
People will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
- Charles Spurgeon
We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.
- AW Tozer
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- George Eliot
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
- Elie Wiesel