72 Movie Quotes about Old Memories (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 3, 2026

Memorable quotes about old memories, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end. But in my heart's the memory and there you'll always be.

Jeanette Nolan as Widow Tweed in The Fox and the Hound (1981)

2 Roaming the streets and shores of my young manhood... Soaking myself in nostalgia. -I know. I can smell it!

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

3 Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

4 I haven't seen this picture in 20 years. Huh. Would you look at me then? Whoo. Would you look at me now.

John Candy as Irv Blitzer in Cool Runnings

5 Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.

Daveigh Chase as Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away

6 Memory is what I have instead of a view.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

7 Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time.

Brian Bedford as Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1973)

8 Once we watched a lazy world go by. Now the days seem to fly. (2)

Brian Bedford as Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1973)

9 I miss the Shire. I spent all my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

10 A part of childhood we'll always remember. It is the Summer of the soul in December.

Ebenezer Scrooge as Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol