Quotes About Memories

When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.

I have nothing but positive things to say about my time in Boston. I have great relationships I built there.

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

I was given a Roberts digital radio by my mum and dad. I think it's my favorite possession.

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.

Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing.

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.

'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.

My favorite photos of family are framed in my house, not posted on social media, and they'll remain there.

I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.

I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.

I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.'

I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.

My brother and I had Henrik Larsson posters everywhere.