Quotes About Nostalgia

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

Being able to build with my kids using my own Lego pieces that I've had for over 30 years combined with their new sets, that's really special. I can't think of anything else that was part of my childhood and now part of my parenthood.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

Paris is very dear to me, and I'll never forget Paris.

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.

You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.

My first concert I can remember was AC/DC when I was 9 years old, in Paris. It's a good first one!

Paris is in my story. Nobody can take it away.

I know Paris is my hometown, but I would never say, 'Oh, I'm going home back to Paris.' Because we kept moving when I was a child, my home was just where I was at that moment.

For me to be able to experience Paris for the first time with Chanel was a dream come true. I loved the nostalgia of it all.

I have great memories of playing in the Champions League at Celtic Park. That was something I will never forget, and of course we won a championship and that's something no-one can take away from me.

Every time I score, I celebrate like the kid I was playing in the park.

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.