Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

Call us the future from your past.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

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

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

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

I'm a nostalgic guy.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.