Pastoral Resources

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.