#memo

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. ↗

— Pericles

#earth #memorial #men #their #whole

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#me #memories #mosquitoes #most #texas

Put your memories on the shelf. Then, when your hippocampus is floating in a jar, admit you never really knew anybody. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #memory #funny

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone! ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#always #best #come #contend #going

History takes time. History makes memory. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#makes #memory #takes #time

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

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

— Iggy Pop

#forgotten #hot #i #just #know