Julius Schwartz Quotes

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

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

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

People forget years and remember moments.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

The older I get, the less I remember.

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

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

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

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory is the thing you forget with.