#memory

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#broadcast #christmas #christmas day #classic #day

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#life #long #memory #nation

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#forgetting #memory #mythology #death

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. ↗

— George Eliot

#mood #temper #life

I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God? ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#memory #ponderings #life

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting ↗

— Jude Morgan

#memory #life

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #loss #love #memory #plain-truth

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#love #memory #love

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. ↗