Wallace Stegner Quotes

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

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

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

I had an amazing childhood.

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

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.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

Every moment is memorable to me.

Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

We're all making decisions to make ourselves happy and our families happy. That doesn't take away what we've done together and the special bond that we created and the special bond that we have and just all the memories that we had together. That will never change. As you move forward, you appreciate those moments and keep going forward.

I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.