My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.
Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Food is so heavily connected to memory.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
White Americans have a short memory.
I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
Language is memory and metaphor.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.
I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes.
Your body has such a memory.
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
