Memory is a way of
holding onto the things you love,
the things you are, the things
you never want to lose.
-The Wonder Years

God gave us memories that
we might have roses in December.

We must always have old
memories and young hopes.

In memory's telephoto lens,
far objects are magnified.

When our memories
outweigh our dreams,
we have grown old

Things that were hard to bear
are sweet to remember.

Do not trust your memory;
it is a net full of holes;
the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Life is a rough biography.
Memories smooth out the edges

A childhood is what anyone
wants to remember of it.
It leaves behind no fossils,
except perhaps in fiction.

She glances at the photo,
and the pilot light of
memory flickers in her eyes.

To look backward for a
while is to refresh the eye,
to restore it, and to render
it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.