- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Quotes
What stays with us, in the words of those who lived it.
These quotes revolve around memory in different forms: the fading magic of a childhood holiday, the messy notes an idea leaves behind, and a specific recollection tied to a major public demonstration decades ago. For more reflections on time passing and looking back, see Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to see 'Starlight Express' almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the idea that you could rollerskate in a sort of scary old theatre... It was sort of a novel concept.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did see - and it really struck me - the late, great Tim Pigott Smith and Michelle Dockery doing 'Pygmalion' at the Old Vic. That was amazing. I remember being rocked to the core by that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fan once, and I remember what it was like approaching footballers for their autographs. I used to get starstruck a lot of the time.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
- Nov 07, 2020
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020