Quotes About Memories

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never had nor would again. The thoughts and ideas he had birthed in her, his golden touch, and the words that erupted from her and became sparks of light to him.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.

had come all this way and this was what I get paid to do. So I went out and found his home and for four hours it all poured out, what had happened in those three days at Chipyongni when he was a young platoon leader. It was if he had been waiting for me to come by for fifty-five years, and he remembered everything as

That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

young Barack spent most of his time with his fit and youthful forty-five-year-old grandfather.

A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. —Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen Only you can find your own meaning Meaningful connections will heal painful memories

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.

Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.

He had pored over old photographs,

Non c'è dispiacere più grande che ricordare la gioia passata nell'infelicità. 

David Lebovitz

I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

He has been greatly missed since his retirement ... Thank God for videotapes and DVDs. In this regard, he will always be around.