Mementos Quotes

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

— Jared Harris

Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos…

— Wendell Pierce

I'm incredibly sentimental, although I'm not one of those people who doesn't chuck anything out; I don't keep used tea bags -…

— Phillip Schofield

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

— William Gaddis

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and…

— Adam Garcia

I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can…

— Billy Campbell

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging…

— Orhan Pamuk

“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was…

— William Faulkner

“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated…

— Joan Didion

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and…

— Jared Harris

“The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they…

— Joan Didion

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle…

— Scott Turow

Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best…

— Gretchen Rubin

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street…

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians…

— Chris Wyse

“I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to…

— Joan Didion

“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with her manners, the…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

“There was a little sketch pad with a pink paper cover, a packet of handwritten notes in what looked like my grandmother's…

— Mary Simses

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item,…

— William Ritter

In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what…

— Joan Didion

“They were all as timeless as that moment of rescue, perpetuated but forever just occurring, these ornaments, utensils, and mementos stranded in…

— W.G. Sebald

“A silver hairbrush, old and surely precious, with a little leopard's head for London stamped near the bristles. A white dress, small…

— Kate Morton

“our finite time in life does not allow us to really go back. The biographies and autobiographies, based on the exploration and…

— Gar Lasalle

“I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road…

— George Whitman

A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing…

— Michael Chabon

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but…

— Sonya Walger