Quotes about Memories
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.
— AA Milne
Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
— AA Milne
Goodbye..? Why can't we go back to page one and do it all over again?
— AA Milne
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
— Abraham Lincoln
Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.
— Ravi Zacharias
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. "Tell me," I said. "You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.
— Ravi Zacharias
How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.
— Joseph Heller
Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.
— Joseph Heller
Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.
— Walt Whitman
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
— Dante Alighieri
The experience of this sweet life.
— Dante Alighieri
The power of a society is determined by its victory over other societies in still larger finite games. Its most treasured memories are those of the heroes fallen in victorious battles with other societies. Heroes of lost battles are almost never memorialized. Foch has his monument, but not Petain; Lincoln, but not Jefferson Davis; Lenin, but not Trotsky.
— James Carse