“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 77 of 136
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”
“When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.”
“I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.”
“Oh, Snap," I say. "What?" "Sorry. I was flashing back to 2005.”
“Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.”
“For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.”
“You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.”
“And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.”
“She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.”
“When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.”
“I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.”
“And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.”
“I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.”
“Everybody is who he was in high school.”
“I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.”
“What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?”
“Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.”
“She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.”
“One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.”