Quotes About Memories

Un roi doit avoir les mêmes souvenirs que ses sujets.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

In the arcades, when I was younger, there was a game called 'King of Fighters 95,' and I thought I was pretty good. I had a 50-strong win streak on 'Street Fighter 2' around that time.

When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin.

You know, when I was a kid, I used to cry every day, like, when I was like, you know, 7 through 11 or 6 through 11, to the point where my brother and sisters would like - there was an ongoing joke where they would make me cry to keep my streak alive of crying every day.

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.