Top 25 Making Memories Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”

— Destin Sparks

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Art Quotes, Photography Quotes

2. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

Also featured in: Photography Quotes

3. “Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Also featured in: Art Quotes, Photography Quotes

4. “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

— Eudora Welty

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Creative Quotes, Photography Quotes

5. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Past Quotes

6. “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Reputation Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

7. “I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.”

— Emma Watson

8. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”

— Bob Dylan

Also featured in: Past Quotes, Quotes About Memories

9. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Quotes About Children

10. “It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

— Frank Zappa

11. “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

— Frank Sinatra

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

12. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

— Rose Kennedy

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

13. “Memory is the residue of thought.”

— Daniel T. Willingham

14. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

— J.M. Barrie

Also featured in: December Quotes

15. “Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I’ll always remember it.”

— David Nicholls

Also featured in: Romantic Quotes, Anniversary Quotes

16. “Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Past Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

17. “Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

Also featured in: Missing Someone Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

18. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

19. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

— Robert Herrick

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Time Flies Quotes

20. “One day you’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember.”

— Avicii

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Inspirational Birthday Quotes, Beautiful Day Quotes

21. “You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.”

— Meredith Willson

Also featured in: Have a Great Day Quotes

22. “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

Also featured in: You Are Loved Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes, Friends Quotes, Life is Beautiful Quotes

23. “The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!”

— Fernando Pessoa

24. “Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E...”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Childhood, Blessed Family Quotes

25. “We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.”

— Michael Scott

26. “We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish in this remarkable ride.”

— Domhnall Gleeson

Also featured in: Good Day Quotes, Stay Positive Quotes