Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire.

C. S. Lewis

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

Agnes Varda

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

Alan Sugar

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Charlotte Bronte

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Billy Crystal

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

Curtis Jackson

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

Billy Ray Cyrus

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

Dionne Warwick

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Adolf Hitler

History is as Old as My Grandfather

Andrew Cuomo

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Cassandra Clare

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Nelly Furtado

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

Helen Keller

I will eat grandfather for dinner.

Chris Hardwick

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.