Quotes About Memories

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.

I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called 'D.I.S.C.O.' by a band called Ottawan. It's a really fearless disco track from the '70s or early '80s.

I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

All these tracks you have memories at, all of them, Daytona included.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

If I smell a burger stand I get nervous. It takes me back to BMX tracks as a kid.

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

'The Sandberg Game' comes up all the time. Fans tell me where they were. They were driving down the highway, they were in the bleachers, they were downtown listening on the radio, they were on the farm on a tractor. I've heard all the stories where people have been. They're just amazed by the ending of the game and the thrill of it.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

I wouldn't trade the childhood we had because, A, It was normal to me, even though, in hindsight, it's not normal. It felt normal, and I think we maintained a pretty normal healthy attitude towards what we did. And B, I just wouldn't trade it, the experience that we had and the growth we've had.

Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.