Alexandra Daddario Quotes

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Yesterday is just a memory.

I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.