Community Quote by George C. Wolfe

As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer on an…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just…

— Charles Phillips

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett

Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the…

— Haruki Murakami

“People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.”

— Dean Koontz

“As a child I experienced loss for what I felt was withheld from me: the delicious milk, the mountains of flowers I could not…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing…

— Sela Ward

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

— Truman Capote

I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit,…

— Rashida Tlaib

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

— John Cheever