Able Quote by Umberto Eco

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened…

— Jello Biafra

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

— Joy Harjo

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become…

— Eda LeShan

Children are our future but they remember the past.

— Robert D Dangoor

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

— Robert Lepage

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

— Dick Cavett

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

— Jeff Bridges

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer…

— David McCullough

Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything…

— Robert J. Waldinger