Quotes About Memories

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.

Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

I've been a fan of 'Rocky Horror'... my mom let me see it at a really early age.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.