Quotes About Reminiscence

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

I think it's fantastic that people still remember Fable, and some of them are really passionate about it.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I'm concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film.

One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

I have so fiercely dreamed of youAnd walked so far and spoken of you so,Loved a shade of you so hardThat now I've no more left of you.

halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

The thing about memories is they're rarely as you remember them.

we used to take the boys to," Kins said. Two couples sat waiting. Tracy had also read that parents

We used to laugh till we cried. I've never laughed like that since.

I realized that nothing ever comes back again quite the same. Things roll on, new sights take the place of the old, and the only way you can do it over is remember

The ghosts . . . try to remember the sunlight. Light has died out of their skies.

anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.

I grasped after the ghost of a memory. It vanished.