Quotes About Nostalgia

Every Valentine's Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

I want to see the '70s guys, if they're gonna do something, stay valid in the '90s. Then they belong. If they're trapped in the '70s, then it's nostalgia. You're not getting me in those platform shoes again.

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High School in 1985. It was the best childhood anyone could ever ask for.

In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo was the most exhilarating spectacle in the round year.

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

I still rate the bit in the first 'Tomb Raider' where the T Rex comes round the end of the valley and roars as one of the most awesome gaming experiences, and I still adore 'Tomb Raider' for putting that in my life.

I went to Fountain Valley High School. I remember watching Grove Shakespeare productions here. It left a big impression on me.

I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

It was two and a half years that I was down in Ohio Valley Wrestling. It's been a big part of my life now in the sense that I love that period of my life so much. It was like my college years.

There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing them. This is typical of a mentality in bondage to decadent values, negative values - counter-revolutionary values.

Desserts were now only a dim memory.

for the money that her outfit cost my grandpa.

I loved seeing your world. It truly was fascinating. But as the days and weeks went by, I was so homesick for the rivers, the forests, I could hardly wait to come home.

Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too. She

Sixteen magazine, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies during the reigns of Herman's Hermits and the Monkees.

I traveled on Pan Am, in the glory days of first class, catering by Maxim's, champagne and tins of caviar

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?