Quotes About Memories

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

As rowdy as the place was, I've seen rowdier times playing fraternity parties in Oklahoma.

So we made some big plans to be Sonny Boy's band and sat down to some good barbecue in a place I'd been eating in all my life in the black part of town. We ordered sandwiches, coleslaw, and some sodas. While we waited, someone asked Sonny Boy whether he'd known Robert Johnson. "Knew him?" Sonny Boy asked incredulously. "Boy, Robert Johnson died in my arms!

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I still talk with all my USC friends, all the time. They're still going to be like brothers to me.

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a lot of money. He'd buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we'd move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.

Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.