Revisiting Memories Quotes

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

It's important that we came here, just to touch base here in this great country... When I was about 16 I came with my dad for a couple of weeks and had a great time and I've wanted to come back, it's been way too long. So, I'm very happy to be here and I want to come back longer with the rest of my family.

Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.