Quotes About Reminiscence

You are never out of my mind. I feel the cold more than I used to and this house is big

On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, Oh poetic me, but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else.

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything that you once loved about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything you used to love about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

He had said this to me before, and as I heard it, I felt as if I were vanishing into all the other times he had said this to me, returning to a single place where I was always leaving him, and on my return, he was always saying something of this kind.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable," says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attacks on American education, moving backward one decade at a time.3 Each generation invokes the good old days, during which, we discover, people had been doing exactly the same thing.

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around," said the poet Adrienne Rich.

My heart, still full of her, traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I had thought to myself that a woman unknown had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes and I let the chilly statue pass looking athe skies

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it.

I have a lot of affection for those old shows. You can put on an episode of 'Full House' or 'Family Matters' or 'Growing Pains' now and I'll watch it. And I'll totally enjoy it.

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

I can at least hearken to a time when I didn't have a cell phone, where I had to call my mom after movies collect from a pay phone, and when they said, 'State your name,' I'd say, 'Mom, pick me up,' and hang up the phone.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.