David Sedaris Quotes

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

I prefer selective memories. Some songs and some co-workers are all that I want to remember, as memories are not always so pleasant.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

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

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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

There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind.

I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

Every moment is memorable to me.

I don't really remember a lot of my childhood.

I used to watch Arsenal games with my father, and it has a special place in my heart.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Great Time makes all things dim.

As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.