Souvenirs Quotes

• Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

  John Lennon

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Moments, Photograph

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• Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• A photograph is a souvenir of life!

  Deborah Smith

  Photograph

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• I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.

  Hilary Hahn

  Cities, Different, Kind

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• A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

  Lisa Gansky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Voice

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• Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Useless, Auctions

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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• If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

  Henry Mancini

  Travel, Memories, Live Life

  Song: Two for the Road, 2004

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• Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.

  John Lennon

  Love Is, Promise

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Want

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

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• Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.

  Robert Henri

  Struggle, Yesterday, Use

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• A book is a souvenir of an idea.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Ideas

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• Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

  Deborah Harkness

  Past, Remember, Remembering The Past

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.478, Penguin

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• My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Home, Paris

  "I do not fear death" by Roger Ebert, www.salon.com. September 15, 2011.

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• J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Plus

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• What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs.” Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. “How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.

  Rick Riordan

  Couple, Atlanta, Snow

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• I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

  Muhammad Ali

  Blood, Boxing, Looks

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Gutters, Glitter, Lasts

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

  Hermann Hesse

  Moving, Taken, Way

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• If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heaven, Able, Hell

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Museums, Odds, Kitsch

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