Quotes About Nostalgia

The wind is calling in a voice I remember.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

IT'S HARD TO FORGET SOMEONE WHO GAVE YOU SO MUCH TO REMEMBER

Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.' 'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.' 'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?' 'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.' 'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.

But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing

London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.

did not cry when they killed my sister but I did cry when I heard the music coming out of the soldiers' truck because I was thinking, That is my sister's favorite song and she will never hear it again.

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.

singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's

Tonight, we light the symbolic flashlight of under-the-covers reading to celebrate those page-turners we can never put down, even on a school night. I am assured that our Olympic torch will never reach a temperature of Fahrenheit four fifty-one, something the Lorax, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe were all quite happy to hear.

You do? When I was your age, all I had was a girl problem.

You remind me of a young me, Jake!

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Remembering what it felt like to be 20 overwhelmed by feeling and sensation, lost for words.

We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone.

We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction knowing history as we understand it is really just an avalanche of garbage toppling down.

There is nothing quite like opening an unfamiliar book that smells like a new memory about to happen.

We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.

Disney World employs forty thousand people from all corners of the globe. They come to Orlando and work for minimum wage, and they don't care about the money. They work here because Disney makes them feel something: nostalgia, pride, love… Whatever it is, it's real, and it keeps them here for their entire lives.