Cherished Possessions Quotes

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

All my jewelry has stories.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

These precious things, let them bleed.

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it