Quotes about Memories

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

Helen and I made it a point to take the whole family out and spend time traveling or camping together. Sometimes the kids thought of these trips as forced marches, but I think that time we spent together has had a lot to do with our close relationship as a family today. We have a lot of good memories of traveling all over the country, especially in this one fine old DeSoto station wagon.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.