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 ~
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
~By Florence King ~
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 ~
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
~By Fred Frith ~
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
~By Thomas Keller ~
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
~By Ken Venturi ~
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
~By Adam Duritz ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~By Gordon Moore ~
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
~By Raul Julia ~
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 ~
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
~By Marc Newson ~
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
~By Sophia Loren ~
The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
~By John Mayall ~
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 ~
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
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 ~
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
~By George A. Smith ~
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 ~
Memories are doing funny things to us.
~By Milos Forman ~
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
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 ~
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
~By Bobby Flay ~
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
~By John Hurt ~
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
~By Bob Dylan ~
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
~By Jim Fowler ~
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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 ~
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~By John Still ~
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'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
~By Saul Bellow ~
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
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 ~
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
~By George Takei ~
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
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 ~
I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
~By Sharon Stone ~
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. ~
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
~By Alan Bennett ~
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
~By Debi Thomas ~
Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
~By Primo Levi ~
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
~By Margaret Walker ~
I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
~By Michael Landon ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
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 difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~By Salvador Dali ~
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
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 ~
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
~By Roger Clemens ~
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 ~
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
~By Steven Wright ~
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
~By Mac Davis ~
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 ~
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 ~
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
~By Richard Sheridan ~
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.
~By Guy Forget ~
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
~By Jack London ~
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 ~
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
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 ~
I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.
~By Persis Khambatta ~
Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.
~By Peter Bondra ~
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
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 ~
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 ~
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