1. A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono
2. Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley
3. God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
4. It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
5. It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
6. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal
7. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
8. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
9. Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ~Eliza Cook
10. She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford
11. The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ~Howard Pyle
12. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
13. We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese,