Quotes About Family Memories

#1. Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

#2. Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

Dana Gould

#3. I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

Josie Bissett

#4. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before - colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Wendell Pierce

#6. 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

#7. Every family has bad memories.

Mario Puzo

#8. The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Anthony Liccione

#9. I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.

Jennifer Haigh

#10. Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.

George W. Bush

#11. Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

William Zinsser

#12. My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

David Suzuki

#13. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.

Renee Fredrickson

#14. Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

Katherine Jenkins

#15. I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.

Louis C.K.

#16. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

Gordon Ramsay

#18. In loving memory from the Family.

Bugsy Siegel

#19. Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don't let ourselves be mired down in them.

Sarah Jo Smith

#20. People are shaped by their emotions. That which profoundly affects them has a place in their hearts.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#21. My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

Rick Moody

#22. Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!

Nikita Dudani

#23. The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.

Alison Miller

#24. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.

Sheldon Lee Compton

#25. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?

Isabel Lopez

#26. As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Crystal Woods

#27. Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Robert Breault

#28. Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

William Zinsser

#29. There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.

Donna Chapman Gilbert

#30. He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.

"That's where everything starts," he'd say. "Both heaven and hell.

Celeste Albaret

#31. I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

Kim Kardashian

#32. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#33. The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Debi Mazar

#34. Every year since I was very small, my family - Mum, Dad, sister Charlie-Ann and brother Stephen - and I have been holidaying in Carvoeiro in the Algarve, so that has very fond memories for me.

Pixie Lott

#35. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.

Rafal Blechacz

#36. Not only had my brother disappeared, but
and bear with me here
a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.

John Corey Whaley

#37. Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn't changed that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#38. In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep barn, remembering the joy implicit in so much baaing life; in every inch of the farm, I recalled my father's presence.

Julene Bair

#39. The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

Martin Gardner

#40. He'd always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.

Leah Braemel

#41. Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first century. But we can be her fall-back plan, and her stash of memories. Her deep and wide past.

Liz Stephens

#42. When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

Rukhsar Din

#43. When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

Earl B. Russell

#44. Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

Olivia Williams

#45. I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

Jaime Camil

#46. Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.

S.A. Tawks

#47. We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories - and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.

Billy Graham

#48. I don't know what's my first real memory. When you're little, you're always looking forward to days that are special, like Christmas, birthdays, the Fourth of July, and family gatherings. But I can't pinpoint my earliest memory.

Ice Cube

#49. It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.

Melodie Ramone

#51. Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

Ann Hood

#52. I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn't go visit them.

Pedro Pascal

#53. Smell brings to mind ... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

Diane Ackerman

#54. Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

Alexander Wang

#55. It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

#56. Growing up, dinner was when we would sit down, the whole family, and we would talk about our days and just create memories with one another. Now some of my favorite memories are eating and making food with my son.

Tia Mowry

#57. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

Sue Monk Kidd

#58. My brother and I had always been very close, especially living in such a dysfunctional family environment. My earliest memories were of my parents screaming and fighting, especially during the holidays. So, we'd weathered the storms together. In

Kristen Middleton

#59. That's how we all are, too hard for what we should be. We should be a family, not soldiers. But all that really connects us is stories, and memories, of what should be.

Sara Raasch

#60. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#61. I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Miley Cyrus

#62. Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

Chris Brown

#63. I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

Josie Bissett

#64. You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Chris Fabry

#65. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

Ken Burns

#66. As the years pass by, we'll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end." Judy

M. William Phelps

#67. Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Gretchen Rubin

#68. My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Elizabeth Loftus

#69. As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!

Zoe McLellan

#70. We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.

Joshua Ferris

#71. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#72. A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

Pam Brown

#73. Family's not a thing, it's a place,' Shay said softly. 'It's where all the memories get kept.

Jodi Picoult

#74. I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

John Travolta

#75. Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched.

Harold S. Kushner

#76. My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#77. The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only.

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#78. One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.

Beverly Lewis

#79. Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

Mira Bartok

#80. And the pomegranates,/
like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#81. This we know, the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. So hold in your mind the memory on the land as it is when you take it. And, with all your strength, with all your mind, and with all your heart ...

Chief Seattle

#82. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.

Sanober Khan

#83. Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other.

Penny Reid

#84. Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

Kiana Davenport

#85. Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.

James Anderson

#86. I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Ricky Martin

#87. My sister and I are so close that we finish each other's sentences and often wonder who's memories belong to whom.

Shannon Celebi

#88. What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

Joyce Carol Oates

#89. I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

Michael Strahan

#90. All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

V.S. Pritchett

#91. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

Ban Ki-moon

#92. Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with "It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#93. I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories,

Sarah Polley

#94. The soft song from the past threatened to awaken feelings and memories she avoided like black-eyed peas and family reunions.

Pepper D. Basham

#95. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.

Sanober Khan

#96. Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

Ezra Taft Benson

#97. I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.

Ian Doescher

#98. I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life ... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.

Angelina Jolie