Children Quote by Pierce Harris

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep…

— Henry Van Dyke

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water…

— Anonymous

To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our…

— Meinrad Craighead

“Every person has a secret inventory of "things". I call them objects of attachment - things that refuse to be forgotten. Perhaps it's a…

— Jesse Warner

“Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings…

— Iona Opie

“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?”

— Charlotte Brontë

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means…

— Rebecca Solnit

“If someone asked her just then what memory was, what the purest definition of memory was, she would say this: the street you were…

— Zadie Smith

A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's…

— Bai Juyi

“A child's brain is like fly paper that hangs from a barn ceiling: it doesn't get to choose which memories fly away free and…

— Helen Peppe

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

— Thomas Fuller