Memory Quotes

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ~Carol Shields

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings

Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley

We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers