Quotes about Memory
A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory, of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, and airy tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
— John Milton
Me thought I saw my late espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.
— John Milton
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
— John Milton
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
— John Piper
Oh! God, my only trust went there Through all life's scenes before Lo! At the throne again I bow, New mercies to implore. Grant active power, grant fervent zeal, And guide by thy control, And ever be my country's weal The purpose of my soul. Extend, all seeing God, thy hand In memory still decree And make, to bless thy native land An instrument of me. -September 21, 1817
— John Quincy Adams
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother's arms.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
— Barbara Kingsolver
God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.
— Bartolome de las Casas
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus
EVERY PILOT REMEMBERS his first flight. For me, it was in a Cessna 172 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1968.
— George W. Bush
A world where yesterday's classmate and fellow altar server becomes tomorrow's martyr to the firing squads.
— George Weigel