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Quotes About Nostalgia

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
~ Constance Zimmer
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
~ Christian Lacroix
I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
~ Mitski
I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.
~ Glen Campbell
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~ Franklin Pierce Adams
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
~ Don Rickles
In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'
~ Brandon Flowers
I would have liked the old days.
~ David Wells
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
~ Don Ameche
More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.
~ Brad Leone
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
~ O. Henry
I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.
~ Kreayshawn
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, not personal.
~ Bianca Del Rio
I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
~ Joe Cocker
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
~ Valerie June
I have positive feelings about the old days and the way you did things, but that's sort of like feeling nostalgic for the heyday of the Detroit auto industry. Just because it was done doesn't mean it couldn't be improved upon.
~ Oliver Luck
Making movies used to be fun in the old days. It isn't any longer. It's a coldhearted business.
~ Peter Lorre
I liked television in the old days. I liked that everybody knew every episode of 'The Brady Bunch,' everybody knew every episode of 'Cheers.'
~ Dan Schneider
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
~ Rachel Kushner
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
~ Edward Zwick
I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
~ Christopher Priest
I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.
~ Eddie Griffin
Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.
~ James Caan