Parenting Quote by Peter Pomerantsev

“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave. I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can hold memories…

— Hadinet Tekie

“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll…

— Cristina García

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“I understand that my memories are important to history.”

— Clint Hill

“Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.”

— A.J. Dalton

“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death,…

— Wendell Berry

“Back then death was invisible for children like me, who went outside, running fearlessly along those fantastical streets, safe from history. The night of…

— Alejandro Zambra

“And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“times that have long passed by but we remember like yesterday are usually the ones most important and we wish to relive.”

— Anonymous

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein