Quotes About Nostalgia

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.