"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." Eudora Welty (1909–2001), US novelist, short-story writer, and critic.
"I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door."
Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"I still live in and on the sunshine of my childhood.." Christian Morgenstern - Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich.
" . . . it would affect me much to look that way, with a kind of melancholy mixed with sweetness." Jonathan Edwards - (1703–58), US cleric and theologian.
"Memories don't rest in our brains, which are apt to record the details wrong anyway, but in our hearts." Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen in Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul 2
"No day is over if it makes a memory." (taken from a greeting card)
" . . . the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living . . . " Marcus Tullius Cicero - Marcus Tullius Cicero; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic. A supporter of Pompey against Julius Caesar, in the Philippics (43 bc) he attacked Mark Antony, who had him put to death.
"The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever." Bud Meyer - (No information can be found about Bud Meyer.) This sentence about the moment and the memory was written on tee-shirts, sweatshirts and materials that were handed out to people attending Tillamook County Outdoor School in the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The saying has proven true as many who long ago attended Outdoor School in Tillamook County, Oregon, continue to hang on to and treasure their memories especially of the caring atmosphere of that Outdoor School program.
" . . . that many great events arise from little causes and that as relates to the real motives and moving causes of public measures, history knows about as much of the past as she does of the future." James K. Paulding, (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy
" . . . that the camera is a fine device for the remembrance of things passing." Owen Edwards (Photographer?)
"Time endears but cannot fade the memories that love has made." Unknown
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese, 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.
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