This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
~By Angela Carter ~
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
~By John Hurt ~
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
~By William Taylor ~
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
~By Willa Cather ~
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
~By John Williams ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
~By Michael Landon ~
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
~By Brian Sibley ~
The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
~By Michael Chabon ~
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.
~By Judy Davis ~
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
~By Richard Sheridan ~
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
~By James Hillman ~
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
~By Mike Myers ~
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
~By Bobby Flay ~
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
~By Mireille Mathieu ~
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
~By William McFee ~
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
~By Keith Thibodeaux ~
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
~By David Antin ~
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
~By Ted Lindsay ~
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
~By Jack London ~
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
~By Ken Venturi ~
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
~By Chris Cooper ~
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
Memories are doing funny things to us.
~By Milos Forman ~
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
~By Jack Reed ~
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
~By Steve Irwin ~
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
~By Eric Cantona ~
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
~By Chris Brown ~
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
~By Mark Spitz ~
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
~By George Eliot ~
Liars need to have good memories.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
~By Eugenie Anderson ~
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
~By Ugo Betti ~
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
~By Jim Fowler ~
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
~By Adam Duritz ~
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.
~By Anthony Quayle ~
I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
~By Fred Frith ~
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
~By George Carlin ~
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
~By Rick Moody ~
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.
~By Laurel Clark ~
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
~By Dennis Wilson ~
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
~By Delia Smith ~
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
~By Connie Stevens ~
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
~By Iris Dement ~
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
~By Sela Ward ~
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
~By Tom Dempsey ~
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.
~By Peter Shilton ~
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
~By Alfonso Ribeiro ~
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
~By Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
~By Mick Jagger ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
~By Philip Roth ~
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
~By George Takei ~
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