Tom Petty Quotes

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Call us the future from your past.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

The good old days are now.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Remembrance of things past.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'