Quotes About Memory

I used to lose my keys a lot.

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.

My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.

I never saw my parents kiss.

I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

I had a very good kiss from Bob Monkhouse once. I thought, 'If I was straight, I would go for Bob.'

The first girl I kissed was a suburbanite.

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing.

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Believe me, dulcea??, the advent of the mini is forever emblazoned on my mind.

I remember everything.

I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.

Morwenna says beauty and rainbows soon pass away, but I know for the rest of my life when I look at Meg I will see her like this.

Whatever is lost stays alive if we remember it.