Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

I have good memories with Zinedine Zidane, he defended me a lot of times, and I thank him for the confidence he had in me.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we'd visit Miami.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

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