Quotes About Memories

Flavours - these memories generated backwards through our nose - are all learned.

Our childhood experiences with food can trap us in destructive patterns for the rest of our lives.

The childhood foods that we ache for are very specific to the place and the time where we grew up.

Childhood food memories, like family jokes, are often untranslatable to outsiders.

The importance of shared childhood food memories for bonding families together can be seen among expats who carry their 'homeland' with them in the form of ingredients smuggled in suitcases.

One of the functions of traditional cuisines is to reinforce these shared childhood food memories.

Given that we all bring such different food memories to the table, how is it ever possible to cook a meal that will please everyone?

Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown.

Though it was composed of shortening, corn syrup, colourings and other unwholesome ingredients, with a shelf-life so long it became the punchline of many jokes, for many the Twinkie was the taste of childhood. It was Proust's madeleine for the junk-food generation.

Candy bar nostalgia puts us all on the same page.

Have you noticed that when someone wants to express that something tastes extra specially wonderful, they will often invoke childhood?

It's seldom easy to change habits, particularly those so bound up with memories of family and childhood, but, whatever our age, it looks as if eating well is surprisingly teachable skill.

Tie, kurus m?c nostal?ija p?c b?rn?bas, vienk?rši ilgojas p?c t? laika, kad par vi?iem r?p?j?s.

Perhaps there were certain kinds of pain that remained raw forever.

I realise there was little we could say to each other that wouldn't inflict some sort of pain. ... It was easier for people living in the aftermath to ask nothing rather than trespassing on each other's fragile memories. p240

Because he finally knew what it felt like to hold sunshine in his hands...and when Lori left, it was going to feel like winter all year round, even on the hottest days of summer.

stuffed toy from the ground and put it into

Sophie & Jake)   IF YOU WERE MINE (Zach & Heather)   LET ME BE THE ONE (Ryan & Vicki)   COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER (Smith & Valentina) ALWAYS ON MY MIND (Lori & Grayson)   KISSING UNDER THE MISTLETOE

he could read Mia's mind.   Ian and Tatiana sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G   When they were children, everything could be boiled down to such simple sentiments.

I wanted to be able to tell you the exact moment I fell in love with you. But I can't do that." "You can't?" A pin could have dropped in the grass and it would have been heard in that moment as everyone grew perfectly silent to listen for his reply. "No, I can't. Because every single moment I've spent with you is that moment, Lori.

in that childhood room for whose warmth and safety we search all the rest of our lives and never find again.

You can always tell an old cop car because however hard you scrub, it always smells of old cop.

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories – I wasn't sure there was a difference.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.