Memories Quotes

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

~ Tony Blair

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

~ Nina Easton

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

~ Joel Osteen

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

~ Kim Kardashian

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.

~ Darius Rucker

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.

~ Alex Grey

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

~ Marc Newson

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

~ Katharine Mcphee

I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house.

~ Josie Bissett

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

~ May-Britt Moser

I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.

~ Channing Tatum

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

~ Daryl Hall

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

~ Honoré De Balzac

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.

~ Connie Stevens

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

~ Stevie Wonder

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

~ Henry Rollins

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

~ Frederick Reines

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.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

~ Rachel Stevens

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

~ George Foreman

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

~ Claire Tomalin

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.

~ Richard Branson

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

~ Debi Mazar

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

~ Chris Brown

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

~ Michael Strahan

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

~ Olivia Williams

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

~ Alexander Wang

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

~ Jidenna

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

~ Philippe Cousteau

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

~ Homaro Cantu

We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.

~ Jim Harrison

I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.

~ Vir Das

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

~ Marilyn Manson

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

~ Luanne Rice

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

~ Brian Sibley

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

~ Romy Schneider

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

~ Bill Goldberg

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

~ Raul Julia

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.

~ Mariska Hargitay