Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono
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
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"
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
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown
We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect. ~Author Unknown
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. ~Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973
The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected. ~Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991
[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ~Diane Sawyer
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. ~Robert Orben
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~A. Lawrence Lowell
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~Gary Bolding
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Author Unknown
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ~Tom Brokaw
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~Garry Trudeau
[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues. ~Author Unknown
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. ~Author Unknown
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself! ~Terri Soft Wind
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles, 1992
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~B.F. Skinner
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ~Andy McIntyre
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! ~Dr. Seuss
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been. ~C. Hoppe
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." ~Jim Fox
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
I never really loved you,
I never really cared.
Until I felt your terror,
upon me you just stared.
I can't believe you've done this,
I can't believe you dared.
Not until you killed yourself,
did others find they cared. Author Unknown
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