Quotes About Memory

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

Old friends call me Sea Salt, because my last name is Salter. Or Cocoa, cause my real first name is Courtney.

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

Oliver Kahn against Valencia in 2001 - this was the first Champions League game I remember. I was a Bayern fan.

I will always be grateful for having that opportunity to be part of a home Olympic games. It is a memory I will cherish forever.

It felt like I blinked and the Olympics were over.

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I was bathed, and that was it.

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.

My first memory is being taken for Indian food at the Cookham Tandoori on the High Street - I remember the poppadoms, the onions, the chicken tikka.

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.