Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.
The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.
This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys.
[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny'. Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.