John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.

Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

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

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Never forget

Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.

There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.

I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

Every moment is memorable to me.