- Funny
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- 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
I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.
- Nov 07, 2020
Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Michael Jackson once called to see if I was feeling okay because I had gone home sick from the set of 'Goonies'; they'd shut down production for a couple days. I was so excited he called, but he didn't leave his number.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when we came in, in 2013, and I was implementing our border protection policy, people threw their hands up - and I said, 'I'm doing what I said I would do in the way I said I'd do it' - and guess what: I'm now getting the results I said I'd get.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020