We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
Frank McCourt

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
James MacArthur

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Franklin P. Jones

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
Anthony Bourdain

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
Joan Didion

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Studs Terkel

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Amy Tan

You have to have a short memory as a closer.
Frank Robinson

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy Pop