“Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.” TryingLooksHeartEyePastFatherHeardUnderstoodDecadesApologyAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Patti Davis
“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.” MenDoneWholeFactsAblePastRememberFeltHeardGeniusUniversalMarkWhole LifeRemembranceVaryOrganisationEndowment Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?” PastHeardEconomicFiguresCrisisRecent Past Author:Newt Gingrich
“The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?” ThinkingWorldSaidPastRememberBehindsHeardMouthsFleshRememberedBuriedRemember WhenBehind YouCupboards Author:Claudia Rankine
“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.” PastCultureFictionHeardGeniusScience FictionCommentJustifiedVoyagesPlungeLeonardo Author:Lucio Russo