#memo

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#memory #objects #only #pictures #please

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

#also #beacon #fond #fond memories #future

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#america #began #did #first #first amendment

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ↗

— Lord Acton

#history #illumination #memory #soul

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ↗

— Aeschylus

#memory #mother

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#before #endured #here #hours #hundred

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#influence #inspiring #life #life story #memoir