#memory

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#had #helped #little #living #memory

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#angel #breath #dominant #entire #habits

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. ↗

— William Morris

#body #energies #exercising #exist #feels

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#express #get #i #idea #memory

I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#escape #haunted #memory #poetry #skeletons

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#remember

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#emotion #erase #forgetting #kind #lays

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#any #complicated #done #fact #further

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#collective #each #idea #influenced #kind

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#conferred #dies #lived #long #man