Quotes About Reminiscence

What is it about the past? I can never understand it. Why is it so powerful? Why does it appeal to us as if it had some extraordinary pearl of meaning that we can't find in our present lives?

All the lovely things I've known have disappeared.

The lines on Rugby Chapel…I wish I could remember some of them now, but English Literature stopped at Wordsworth when I was up at Oxford, and somehow one doesn't remember things so well that one read since.

The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.

I lived with my grandmother for a year when I was very young, and even to this day, when I tell my mother events that took place, she can't believe that I can recall that far.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.

People recognize me, but I get a lot of, 'Didn't I go to camp with you?'

I can't remember if I got recognized at Disneyland. I probably did a couple of times as well, but I can't remember.

You can't recreate the '60s.

I don't think one can recreate the magic of old films.

I can never recreate the magic that 'Indian' did in the '90s.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

I look back to a happy childhood.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

I used to try to live down that whole big-hair era, but I've come to accept it and have fun with it all.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.