Quotable Quotes (5 page)

 

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

—
R
OBERT
O
RBEN

 

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

—
G
ERMAIN
G
.
G
LIDDEN

 

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

M
EMORY IS THE DIARY . . .

 

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

—
O
SCAR
W
ILDE

 

Count reminiscences like money
.

—
C
ARL
S
ANDBURG

 

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

—
B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER

Animal Dreams

 

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

—
C
ESARE
P
AVESE

The Burning Brand

 

The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.

—
B
UD
M
EYER

 

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

—
T
HOMAS
H
.
R
ADDALL

 

Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.

—
L
IBBIE
F
UDIM

 

Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.

—
A
LAN
L
OY
M
C
G
INNIS

The Romance Factor

 

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

—
P
HYLLIS
R
OSE

in
Hers: Through Women's Eyes

 

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

—
C
ORRIE TEN
B
OOM WITH
J
OHN
AND
E
LIZABETH
S
HERRILL

The Hiding Place

 

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

—
Quoted by P
AUL
D
ICKSON
in
Toasts

 

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

—
A
SHLEIGH
B
RILLIANT

 

To live without a memory is to live alone.

—
G
ILLES
M
ARCOTTE

 

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

—
R
ICHARD
L
LEWELLYN

How Green Was My Valley

 

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

—
S
AUL
B
ELLOW

 

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

—
C
HARLES
R
.
S
WINDOLL

The Strong Family

 

You never know when you're making a memory.

—
R
ICKIE
L
EE
J
ONES

“Young Blood”

 

Our memories are card indexes—consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control.

—
C
YRIL
C
ONNOLLY

 

What is memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

—
S
TANLEY
K
AUFFMANN

The New Republic

 

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

—
P
IERCE
H
ARRIS

Atlanta Journal

 

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

—
D
IANE
S
AWYER

in
TV Guide

 

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

—
S
TANISLAW
J
.
L
EC

Unkempt Thoughts

 

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering—and even more difficult.

—
H
ARRY AND
J
OAN
M
IER

Happiness Begins Before Breakfast

 

Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.

—
H
ELGA
S
ANDBUR

“. . . Where Love Begins”

 

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

—
B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER

Animal Dreams

 

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

—
J
EAN
P
AUL
R
ICHTER

 

The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.

—
J
EAN
C
OCTEAU

 

There is something terrible yet soothing about returning to a place where you once lived. You are one of your own memories.

—
M
ARY
M
ORRIS

Crossroads

 

Some folks never exaggerate—they just remember big.

—
A
UDREY
S
NEAD

 

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.

—
Commercial Appeal
(Danville, Virginia)

 

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

—
J
AMES
M
.
B
ARRIE

 

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

—
L
OUIS
L'A
MOUR

Ride the River

 

I
F YOU'RE YEARNING FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS . . .

 

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

—
G
RIFF
N
IBLACK

in Indianapolis
News

 

We have all got our “good old days” tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in dreams like cats to favorite armchairs.

—
B
RIAN
C
ARTER

Where The Dream Begins

 

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

—
W
ILL
R
OGERS

 

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

In the old days, when things got rough, what you did was without.

—
B
ILL
C
OPELAND

 

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.

—The United Church Observer

 

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

—
M
ILTON
S
.
E
ISENHOWER

The Wine Is Bitter

 

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

—
L
ILLIAN
E
ICHLER
W
ATSON

Light from Many Lamps

 

Nothing seems to go as far as it did. Even nostalgia doesn't reach back as far as it used to.

—Changing Times

 

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

—
J
AN
G
LIDEWELL

in St. Petersburg
Times

 

A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don't set up housekeeping.

—
D
AN
B
ARTOLOVIC

KPUG-KNWR, Bellingham, Wasington.

 

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

—
I
VERN
B
ALL

 

The older you get, the greater you were.

—
L
EE
G
ROSSCUP

H
OME IS A PLACE . . .

 

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

—
J
OHN
E
D
P
EARCE

in Louisville
Courier-Journal Magazine

 

The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day.

—
P
ERSIAN PROVERB

 

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

—
M
ARGARET
M
EAD

 

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

—
C
ONFUCIUS

 

Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

—
O
LIVER
W
ENDELL
H
OLMES
S
R.

 

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

—
V
ERNON
G
.
B
AKER

in
Courant
(Hartford, Connecticut)

 

My home is here. I feel just as at home overseas, but I think my roots are here and my language is here and my rage is here and my hope is here. You know where your home is because you've been there long enough. You know all the peculiarities of the people around you, because you are one of them. And naturally, memories are the most important. Your home is where your favorite memories are.

—
P
IETER-
D
IRK
U
YS

 

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse . . . and dreams of home.

—
C
ARL
B
URNS

The Drug Shop

 

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

—
S
AM
E
WING

in
National Enquirer

 

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

—
C
HARLES
K
URALT

North Carolina Is My Home

 

A small town is a place where there is little to see or do, but what you hear makes up for it.

—
I
VERN
B
ALL

 

A small town is a place where everyone knows whose check is good and whose husband is not.

—
S
ID
A
SCHER

 

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

—
Quoted by S
TEPHEN
K
ING
in
Down East

 

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

—
A
NDREW
A
.
R
OONEY

And More by Andy Rooney

 

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

—
G
EORGE
M
OORE

 

Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.

—
J
.
S
.
F
ARYNSKI

 

A
TRUE FRIEND . . .

 

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

—
G
ARTH
H
ENRICHS

 

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

—
J
OHN
C
HURTON
C
OLLINS

 

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

—
R
OBERTA
L
IEBERMAN

 

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

—
O
PRAH
W
INFREY

 

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

—
R
OBERT
B
RAULT

 

It may be true that a touch of indifference is the safest foundation on which to build a lasting and delicate friendship.

—
W
.
R
OBERTSON
N
ICOLL

People and Books

 

Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.

—
N
ORMAN
V
INCENT
P
EALE

 

It's the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting.

—
T
ODD
R
UTHMAN

 

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

—
B
ENJAMIN
F
RANKLIN

 

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

—
T
HOMAS
J
.
W
ATSON
S
R.

 

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

—
W
ILLIAM
B
LAKE

 

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

—
G
EORGE
W
ASHINGTON

 

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

—
J
OHN
L
EONARD

in
Friends and Friends of Friends
by Bernard Pierre Wolff

 

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

—
M
AYA
A
NGELOU

The Heart of a Woman

 

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

—
A
NNE
M
ORROW
L
INDBERGH

 

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-by.

—
M
ARIE
L
OUISE DE LA
R
AMÉE

 

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

—
E
USTACHE
D
ESCHAMPS

 

The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.

—
D
AVID
A
UGSBURGER

 

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

—
C
HARLES
L
.
A
LLEN

Roads to Radiant Living

 

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

—
L
ETTY
C
OTTIN
P
OGREBIN

Among Friends

 

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

—
M
ERRY
B
ROWNE

in
National Enquirer

 

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

—
E
MILY
D
ICKINSON

 

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

—
A
RISTOTLE

 

In my friend, I find a second self.

—
I
SABEL
N
ORTON

 

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

—
H
ARRY
E
MERSON
F
OSDICK

 

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

—
H
.
G
.
B
OHN

 

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.

—
The Optimist Magazine

 

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

—
E
VELYN
W
AUGH

 

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

in
The Wall Street Journal

 

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

—
W
ILLIAM
R
OTSLER

 

To a friend's house, the road is never long.

—
A
NONYMOUS

 

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

—
Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

 

True friendship is like phosphorescence—it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

—
D
ENISE
M
ARTIN

 

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

 

It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

—
M
IGNON
M
C
L
AUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

 

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.

—
S
ID
A
SCHER

 

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

—
A
LICE
D
UER
M
ILLER

 

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

—
S
ICILIAN PROVERB

 

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't.

—
B
ERN
W
ILLIAMS

 

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.

—
Farmers Almanac

 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

—
E
D
C
UNNINGHAM

 

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

—
E
LISABETH
F
OLEY

 

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

—
C
HRISTINE
L
EEFELDT AND
E
RNEST
C
ALLENBACH

The Art of Friendship

 

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

—
W
ALKER
P
ERCY

Love in the Ruins

 

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

—
E
LIZABETH
B
ARRETT
B
ROWNING

 

An enemy who tells the truth contributes infinitely more to our improvement than a friend who deludes us.

—
L
OUIS-
N
.
F
ORTIN

Pensées, Proverbes, Maximes

 

It pays to know the enemy—not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.