“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.” HandsFatherVoiceMemoriesDadSpokesDeaf Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.” IfsKnowsMenShouldMomentsAgeVoiceMemoriesForgetExistenceEternityDustAnticipationRecallsEvidentForget ItChorusSingle MomFrailty Author:Charles Wagner
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.” MenYearsTwoReasonLightEyeEarthYoungVoiceMemoriesWalksPathDivineSweetHigherAngelTraditionShiningGuidesEndlessChecksMysteriousStreamsYieldRaysCompellingFloatingLampsReflectingAccordFootstepsEvermoreRipening Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.” ChildrenHomeAgeTogetherYoungMotherGivenGrowsVoiceMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingShareChildhoodStyleDrawsPrejudiceChosenOld AgeComparisonCompanionEchoesChildhood MemoriesHousekeepingOlder SisterYoung MotherHomemaking Author:Margaret Mead
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.” MotherHouseVoiceMemoriesComedyConditionsEqualNormalAchievementMiserableFuelRemarkableComparisonParadoxSentimentalJohnsonDeprivationAdmirerPathosBeckettGilded Author:James Marcus
“I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.” BookVoiceMemoriesConversationEndless Author:Marilynne Robinson
“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.” IfsMenFeelsFirstsChildrenSometimesVoiceMemoriesRoomsColorReturnFirst TimeTrackDetailsSmellToneVisualsAuditory Author:Martha Manning
“I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.” PeopleShowsRealityFilmVoiceMemoriesStupidTvsObsessedTv ShowsReality Tv Author:Jenny Hval
“I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.” ThinkingTodaySchoolYoungVoiceChurchMemoriesLevelsTeachAdviceAreasSingersLocalsPerformingChoirHappy MemoriesMusicianshipChurch ChoirChoral Music Author:Katherine Jenkins
“I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.” BelieveStoriesI BelieveVoiceMemoriesAccessImperfect Author:Tom Barbash
“What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.” ThinkingWritingTryingHas BeensMadeSometimesMomentsVoiceMemoriesExtraordinaryBelieverRealmsSuspectsPreachingGlimpse Author:Frederick Buechner
“I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.” PeopleTwoNightFallParentSoundVoiceMemoriesAttentionComfortableMessagesSecureToneTrustedBeing LovedFalling Asleep Author:Jill Ker Conway