#memory

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#memory #dreams

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

#like #memory #nothing #prevents

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#another #aside #back #begin #blotting

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#colored #deceptive #events #memory #today

On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#called #daniel #day #days #father

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. ↗

— Black Elk

#come #did #dreamed #duty #even

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conception #elude #find #forever #harmonious

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom