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Quotes About Nostalgia

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
~ Randy Newman
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
~ Barbara Bush
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
~ C.S. Lewis
The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.
~ Jimmy Fallon
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
~ Mark Twain
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
~ William Shakespeare
The older I get, the better I was.
~ Van Dyke Parks
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
~ Levon Helm
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
~ Judy Garland
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
~ J. Cole
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
~ Saki, Reginald
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
~ Tacitus
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
~ Grace King
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
~ John Milton
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.
~ John Towner Williams
I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.
~ Jack Nicholson
At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
~ Amy Winehouse
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
~ Azar Nafisi
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
~ Curtis Jackson
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.
~ Steve Almond
It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
~ Kerr Smith
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
~ Diane Ackerman