Javier Zanetti Quotes

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

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.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

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

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved from that house when I was less than ten months old. I have drawn pictures of it and shown my mother, and she was shocked because we have no photos of the place, and I was very accurate.

My first memories of life were Californian.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

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 was a time when these weren't memories.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.