Quotes about Memories

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have lived with a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.

we lost our son, Anne, as did many others, but we have our memories of him and souls cannot die. We can still walk with Walter in the spring.

Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes...Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it...and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries...a great sisterhood of love and service...the remembered and the unremembered alike.