Keepsakes Quotes

• Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Poetry, Invisible

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Memories, Past

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• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

  George Carlin

  Family, Pet, Hobbies

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• I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

  John Green

  Memories, Might, Dissipation

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.116, Penguin

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• Surround yourself with what you love.

  George Carlin

  Staying Young, Surround Yourself, What You Love

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Children, Party

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos –like amber in which a memory gets trapped.

  Michael Chabon

  Memories, Believe, Feelings

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• Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balls, News, Lords And Ladies

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• Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Rope, Pieces

  1897 Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

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• I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literature, Burden

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I raced through
  Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

  Linda Fairstein

  Smart, Interesting, Killers

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• It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now.

  Giovanna Cau

  Beautiful, Queens, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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