Ava Gardner Quotes

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

Life is but a series of memories you make.

How many likes you get on a selfie will not be what you remember 10 years down the line. The relationships that you form and the memories that you make and the connections that you make with people day to day are the things you remember.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.