Best memories & smell Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.”

People School Remember Memories Powerful Students College Smell Noise Shooting Fourth Remember When July Fireworks College Students Richmond

Author:Kevin Powers

“The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.”

Mind Left Memories Scene Conscious Photograph Smell Conscious Mind

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”

Needs Remember Memories Brain Fire Events Perception Stronger Originals Patterns Smell Linked Neurons Remember Something

Book:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.”

Light Able Memories Loss Sadness Wind Smell Scent Fragrance Evoke Odor

Author:Bentley Little

“The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.”

Memories Hair Smell Triggers

Book:Rose Cottage

Source: Rose Cottage

“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”

Memories Childhood Stronger Smell Childhood Memories

Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

“Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.”

Memories Five Smell Senses Five Senses Best Memories

Book:Word Painting

Source: Word Painting

“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.”

Thinking Language Memories Animal Talking Behavior Smell Categories Autism Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.”

Children Stills Sometimes Feelings Light Able Night Sound Memories Rooms Growing Events Sight Forgotten Smell Surface Monsters Nevertheless

Author:Fred Rogers

“Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells Memories Sweet Blessed Rose Smell Feds Guests Jars Good Thoughts

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.”

Thinking Memories Powerful Emotional Smell Excitement Scent Perfume Our Memories Harness

Author:Cate Blanchett

“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...”

Nature Memories Childhood Mountain Summer Smell Memorable Unexpected Lakes Scent Fleeting June Our Memories Momentary Childhood Memories Sweet Potatoes

Author:Diane Ackerman

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

Ifs Men Feels Firsts Children Sometimes Voice Memories Rooms Color Return First Time Track Details Smell Tone Visuals Auditory

Author:Martha Manning

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

Imagination Memories Smell Sentiments Association Good Memories

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.”

“Smell is the sense of memory and desire.”

Desire Memories Smell

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.”

“You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.”

Ifs Thinking Want Littles Sound Memories Animal Smell Get Away Sensations Bites Sound Bites

Author:Temple Grandin

“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.”

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