Quotes by Memories The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand. Adrian Rogers ink memories hands People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile. Adriana Trigiani grandmother memories people Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative. Adrienne Mayor queens memories past Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed. Adrienne Monnier self roots memories Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Adrienne Rich fake-people real memories To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist. Adrienne Rich dream writing memories Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable. Adrienne Rich letters memories lying The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence. Adrienne Rich grandchildren memories lying We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama. Adrienne Rich memories life way When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity. Adrienne Rich notebook prayer memories There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus pain missing-you memories Wisdom comes through suffering. Aeschylus pain heart memories For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory. Aeschylus strong writing memories In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. Aeschylus pain rain memories When a match has equal partners then I fear not. Aeschylus wedding marriage memories Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. Aeschylus grief heart memories The memory of a good deed lives. Aesop good-deeds deeds memories The first lady in my life, but now you're gone, Afrika Baby Bam rap memories years I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself. Agatha Christie self memories thinking Even God cannot change the past. Agathon change time memories «1234567891011»