Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dona Stephens

We bought this house in '73 and all their childhood memories are tied up with this house. They really wanted me to restore it and that's what I'm going to do. I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. If it does, I'll rebuild again, because this is my home.

Houssaye Houssaye

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

William Shakespeare

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Alan Cooper

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Alan Bennett

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

Bill Bray

When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick.

Arnold Bennett

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Bruce McCulloch

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

Paul Conroy

The words impoverished, cluttered and arid come to my mind, ... The main roads were paved, but when you moved into the residential areas, the roads were just ruts in the sand.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Mary Humstone

There are many, many different stories. This could be a fabulous historic site. With the nice concentration of Fort Laramie, the Oregon Trail ruts and the Sunrise Mine, I think this could be a really good heritage tourism area. There is enough here for a special trip to these places for tourists.

William Shakespeare

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Che Guevara

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Agnes Varda

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Brene Brown

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.