Pastoral Resources

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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.