Quotes About Memories

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

How many worlds make up a life!

he studied the two photographs he carried with him at all times: the first of his wife and children, the second, a portrait of him as a young man, singing on a street corner by his house.

AUNT IBBY'S GINGER PANCAKES WITH LEMON SAUCE

When your life flashes before you, do you think that includes every trip you made to the bank?

B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home

Keeping track of Oren had once been the schoolgirl hobby of summer vacations.

I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening.

Carol Ryrie Brink

But we must also be careful which memories we select to justify our lives, because we will have to live by them.

Life is too short to spend your time pining for someone who isn't here.

There's already someone that I love very much. I just never knew quite how much until it was too late.

And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market—the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . —JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted

Manhattan, When I Was Young

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it. Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

She supposed that there were some things, some lost things, some things that could never be recovered, that would always be regretted; mourned; grieved over.

Houses are real, deep, emotional things.

The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.

It seemed like five minutes later we were here, the Land That Time Forgot, watching the removal van disappear round the corner like a last hope.

I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life.

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Memories are all the same at their core; it's just us trying to keep each other alive, the best parts anyway.