History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcom X

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
Roald Dahl

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

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