Retrospective Memory Quotes

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

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

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.