Memory Quotes
Memory has a small number of very good, well-sourced lines. Oscar Wilde, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), calls it the diary we all carry about with us. William James, in The Principles of Psychology (1890), says that forgetting is as important a function of the intellect as recollecting. Ray Bradbury, in Long After Midnight (1976), says that God gives us dreadful gifts and the most dreadful is memory.
The flagged lines are the kind that circulate on social media. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory” to Dr. Seuss, and a line about the sap in the trees carrying the memory of the red man to Chief Seattle. All three are marked misattributed.
To me, it was home and a place of happy memories, and I grew up believing I was rich.
Poetry plays a significant role in the restoration of the memory of a nation
South Africa's collective memory is an integral part of its living heritage
This idea of the imaginary within memory for me is really important
I see and restore the memory of forgotten people, of nature, which I celebrate in my creations
Healing from a violent past involves navigating a complex landscape of memories and emotions
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. (p. 40)
“her contribution to preserving the memory and heritage of the nation.”