Avery Brooks Quotes

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

The past is what the past is.

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.

Never, ever forget history.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.