Quotes about Memories

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

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

Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.

Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.

There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others; though we who looked on think lightly of such premature despair, as if our vision of the future lightened the blind sufferer's present.

They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had forever closed behind them.

I thought we should never part with that while we lived; everything is going away from us; the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!