Quotes About Nostalgia

It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.

Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.

St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young.

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

Jaipur is my mother's hometown. So, every summer vacation, we would come to Jaipur and spend the entire holiday at my nani's house.

I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.

We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.

My family never took vacations growing up. It just wasn't a thing.

The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.

I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.

I spent a lot of my school vacations in Devlali because my grandparents lived in the cantonment there.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I ordered one once. Then I found out what it was and remembered that I grew up reading the 'Sharknado' novels.

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

I don't watch most of the movies I'm in. Ever. They're like a bad relationship where, after you break up, you don't want to look over all the valentines.

In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

I would like to see another Johnny Valentine.

When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'

I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, 'I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.' And I didn't sign my name.

When I was in the seventh grade, I had a girlfriend. I used to save up some of my pocket money to get her gifts on Valentine's Day.