- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memories Quotes
What stays with us long after the moment passes.
This page collects quotes on memory from very different sources - sports loyalty built over generations, a warm family vacation spent kayaking on the islands, and the honest admission that some memories return only in pieces. See also Past.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Aesthetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young girl, I watched my mother hand-stitch thobes while sitting on the floor with a lamp at her side. She would make the small designs of flowers and different shapes. Just thinking about it brings up so many memories of my mother and how proud she was of being Palestinian.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I especially have very fond memories associated with the 10th day of Dassera. My friends and I would meet up and build this huge 7-feet-tall Ravan, which we'd burn at around sunset in our colony. And this was no ordinary Ravan. We'd actually sit and hand-mix the contents of glue and glitter with the dough and wrap it around newspaper for the base.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manipal was the best time I ever had in life: a great university with wonderful teachers, fantastic memories and deep, lifelong friendships.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
- Iceland
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- Nov 07, 2020
The memories of shooting in Iceland are amazing.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shyambazar evokes a strong sense of nostalgia in me. There's not a theatre in that area where I haven't watched a movie. I also have fond memories of going grocery-shopping at Grey Street with my grandparents.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
- Phony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020