Quotes About Memories

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant to our consciousness in a way they couldn't be when they were alive, because then we depended on their comings and goings—the highs and lows of their being with us, the vagaries of presence and convenience. But

I depended on you....You're older, you're supposed to be my...my archive. That's what sisters do, remember for each other.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Everyone is too young when their mother dies.

He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way—either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

I sing just to sing it all to the surface. All the things we can't hold on to: life as it once was and isn't any longer, I guess.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

The childhood .. is my favourite scene! Life is going so fast!

And when you look at him again, it's not the speck of drool on his pillow you see or the way his belly hangs over his pants a lot more than it used to. What you see, deep down, is the love, and the memories, and the hope. That's what makes everything worthwhile.

We can try to catch moments with people we care about." She thought of Cash and Tess, JJ, Riki. And Will. "Because in the end, the moments are all we have.

It mocked us, the beautiful Yesterday; It left us poorer. Oh, never mind! In the fair Tomorrow, far away, It waits the joy that we failed to find.