Quotes About Reminiscence

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

Al poner demasiado empeño en olvidar, sólo recuerdo; ¿por qué, cuando uno trata de olvidar, no olvida?

My first memory of school is of taking an apple to the teacher. This puzzles me. We had no apples on Isabella. It must have been an orange; yet my memory insists on the apple.

Sit down, Mi Vida," said El Patrón, indicating a chair by the table. "As I remember, you like cookies.

If I could have remembered, at least some of the words would have been wrong: like hearing again a half-remembered favorite tale from childhood and finding it unsatisfying, or at least not as I'd remembered it.

Se bebe para recordar y se escribe para olvidar.» —A

El mar lo devuelve todo después de un tiempo, especialmente los recuerdos.

That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was that of a thin man wearing an old suit that was too large for him and a secondhand hat he had bought on Calle Condal for seven pesetas, a man who could not afford to buy his son a wretched pen that was useless but seemed to mean everything to him.

Cedo ou tarde, o oceano do tempo nos devolve as lembranças que enterramos nele.

Sooner or later the ocean of time brings back the memories we submerge in it.

What do I know? Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Would you want to be sixteen again?" Lola asked.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I'd forgotten until I remember them.

i keep myself busy with things to do, but everytime i pause i still think of you..

But in reality the old man did not leave an empty life, because it was filled to the brim with the ghost of his past.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I forgot I'd forgotten until I remember them.

I drew that memory of my father on the roof...I drew him in all the small and quiet ways I had never thought to draw him before. And it seemed to me that I was closer to him during those early months of his absence than at any other time of my life.

that gloomy kind of mood where you remember all of your mistakes and none of your good decisions

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

I see Calcutta as a place where I have a lot of memories... a lot of fond memories of coming back here and helping the children.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being on horseback.