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Always have old memories, and young hopes. -- Arsene Houssaye
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur. -- Mira Bartok
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY. -- Brad Meltzer
Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison. -- Sherry Thomas
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories. -- Edith Wharton
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends. -- Manu Joseph
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories. -- Otto Preminger
When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound. -- DJ Spooky
I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love. -- LeAnne Mechelle
Observation is an old man's memory. -- Jonathan Swift
I have an old brain but a terrific memory. -- Al Lewis
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. -- Lactantius
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. -- Charles Baudelaire
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys. -- Michael Keaton
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes. -- Seth Green
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. -- Ricky Nelson
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade. -- Brian Sibley
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart. -- Eliza Cook
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. -- Angela Carter
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories. -- George Takei
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. -- George Savile
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. -- George Eliot
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. -- Max Muller
You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. -- Bernhard Langer
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. -- Norman Wisdom
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. -- Aulus Gellius
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. -- Norton Juster
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know? -- Bode Miller
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of. -- Kazuya Minekura
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection. -- Lewis Thomas
Old friends are memories personified. -- Richard Paul Evans
I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now. -- Willard R. Espy
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! -- George Eliot
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. -- William J. Clinton
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. -- Terry Pratchett
Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old. -- Nido R Qubein
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. -- Brad Meltzer
You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year! -- Washington Irving
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. -- Joyce Cary
As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s. -- Erro
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. -- George Eliot
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it. -- Annie Dillard
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. -- George Carlin
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. -- Xavi
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
The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. -- Dan Simmons
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. -- Paulo Coelho
His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.. -- Lee Ann Womack
I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them. -- Margaret Millar
Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit. -- Nick Bantock
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many. -- Garrison Keillor
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live? -- Diane Ackerman
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ... -- Anita Shreve
Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty. -- Sidney Lanier
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. -- Hilary Mantel

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