Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

My older brother went into another city for college, and I felt like I wanted to stay in my home town to be close to my parents. Looking back, that was the best decision. My father passed away in 2010 and I got to enjoy those four years with him.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

When I think about my late grandmother and how she used to talk to me, I become very emotional.

Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.