“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?” PeopleLittlesTwoWarKidsThreeBitsParentMemoriesPoorWifeThousandLittle BitDiedSoldierZeroEntitledPoor PeopleGround Zero Author:Carl Paladino
“From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.” ThinkingParentMemoriesLove IsLove YouBabyTinyUnconditional Author:Kevin Whately
“One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.” PlayHouseParentMemoriesSeeingHigherSingingBlueGet UpSundayLeapAfternoonEpicWilsonJackieSunday Afternoons Author:Bronagh Gallagher
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.” DoeParentLinesMemoriesImagineProgressTreeIntelligentAnalogiesGood MemoriesSplittingAmoebaLife Line Author:Hugh Everett III
“And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsMadeTwoLastsThreeCausesParentMemoriesRoomsBoysBrotherMomBedMovedMy MomMade ItSupposed To BeSatMy BrotherNbaThree YearsOddsApartmentFurnitureEighteenLiving RoomSingle ParentMvpBest MemoriesEighteen Years Old Author:Kevin Durant
“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.” HelpingMotherParentMemoriesMorningTreeDadEatingSpendingSundayToastsYour DadChristmas TreeDecoratingSunday MorningPopeyeFrench Toast Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.” PeopleIfsMindIdeasDifferentStoriesRememberParentMemoriesFictionOur LivesCouplePhotographMoodInterpretationFillingTrust OthersFilling In Author:Steven Tyler
“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.” KnowsWayChildrenMomentsParentMemoriesDealsCarAdultsSeatsGradesCommentPantsRecallsRaising ChildrenSpursSpur Of The MomentAdult Children Author:Anna Quindlen
“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.” ChildrenFeelingsParentMemoriesChildhoodStyleGhostJustifySuspectsEmbarrassedHumiliationSubmissionHelplessnessSpankingParenting Styles Author:Selma Fraiberg
“My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.” KidsStarsParentMemoriesChickensYards Author:Mohsin Hamid
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.” ShouldTryingHelpingFightingParentNaturalMemoriesEmotionOne ThingFantasticBottles Author:Simon Cowell
“It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.” ShouldChildrenHardHelpingHomeWould BeParentInterestMemoriesSupportWifeHusbandAuthorityGainsSafetyInstinctImmortalityServingMatesConstituentsWilderVicariousUnconcerned Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.” KnowsTwoRememberGivenParentMemories Author:Umberto Eco
“My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.” FirstsBigsRememberStrongParentMemoriesBearsDancingMusicalTeddyQuartetsRehearsingTeddy BearVilla Author:Leonard Slatkin
“I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it! I just loved staring at the clouds and dreaming away.” DreamParentMemoriesSittingCloudsStaringFlatsRoof Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.” KnowsChildrenSometimesRememberFacesFightingParentMemoriesKnow HowSeeingCarGradesOver YouToysSiblingOnly ChildVenomous Author:Billy Collins
“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPastParentMemoriesPhotographBunchRecallsCharmingOur PastUnclesAuntYour PastOur MemoriesDrawersDisconnectedPostmanOld Photographs Author:Gail Zappa
“I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.” IfsChildrenYoungParentMemoriesSingersOperaYoung ChildrenOpera Singers Author:Sandra Bullock
“I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.” PeopleTwoNightFallParentSoundVoiceMemoriesAttentionComfortableMessagesSecureToneTrustedBeing LovedFalling Asleep Author:Jill Ker Conway
“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.” ThinkingLittlesTwoImportantCountryBigsMovingValuesHouseParentChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodRacismImportant ThingsMy FavoriteSmellCoffeeOur CountryErasKitchenHallsTexasBedroomChildhood MemoriesFortsUnitarianFavorite MemoriesUnitarian ChurchFort Worth Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.” PeopleTryingFirstsSeemsKidsParentMemoriesForgetBrainTeenagerAdolescence Author:Maia Szalavitz