A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. —Grandma Moses

Memory is a man’s real possession... In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.              —Alexander Smith

It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.          —Sidney Smith

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.    

               —Barbara Kingsolver

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.      —Charles Kuralt

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.   —Willa Cather

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

                           —Jeremy Irons

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

                          —Lewis Carroll

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

                      —Chinese proverb

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you. —Rachel Carson

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

                             —Mark Twain