Cassandra Peterson Quotes

I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.