Sayings about Memories
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. ~ French Proverb
The memories of one’s youth make for long, long thoughts. ~ Finnish Proverbs
Good memories last long, bad ones last longer. ~ Czech Proverb
As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee; as the scent to the rose, are those memories to me. ~ Amelia C. Welby
Memories are all we really own. ~ Elias Lieberman
Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. ~ Charlotte Kasl
People often get their imagination’s mixed up with their memories. ~ P.K. Shaw
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ~ Author Unknown
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories. ~ Denis Diderot
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. ~ Lillie Langtry
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~ Saul Bellow
Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. ~ Chris Brown
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? ~ W. J. Wetherby
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. ~ Willa Cather
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~ Honore de Balzac
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. ~ Mattie Stepanek
Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. ~ Caroline Kennedy
Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Memories is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. ~ Read Full definition
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye. ~ Author Unknown
Take only memories leave nothing but footprints. ~ Chief Seattle
That translucent alabaster of our memories. ~ Marcel Proust
Some of my fondest memories in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came early. ~ Peter Vidmar
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, a picture is worth a thousand memories; for when all is said and done, it is the memories that last with us forever. ~ Jeffrey A. Goodman
Our hopes are but memories reversed. ~ Author Unknown
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. ~ Stevie Wonder
Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ~ Cathy Allen
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. ~ Bill Cosby
I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ~ Sophia Loren
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. ~ Walter Benjamin
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ~ Cyril Connolly
So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. ~ John Mason Brown
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. ~ Philip Roth
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.~ George Eliot
A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land without memories is a land without history. ~ Abram Joseph Ryan
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations. ~ Muriel James
It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. ~ Will Rogers
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. ~ Eric Hoffer
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. ~ Author Unknown
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ~ Elie Wiesel
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~ Thomas Fuller
It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe — though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived. ~ Susan Sontag
I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~ David Gerrold
Liars need to have good memories. ~ Algernon Sidney
Living in memories is an empty gesture. ~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ~ Cesare Pavese
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ~ Adrienne Rich
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ~ Primo Levi
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. ~ Steven Wright
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ~ Rosa Parks
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories. ~ Jesse Jackson
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch. ~ Surya Das
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~ Salvador Dali
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. ~ Ricky Nelson
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. ~ Bob Dylan