Quotes About Nostalgia

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn't fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

People can forget your music but we are more surprised than happy to see that no one has forgotten our music.

We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.

Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

My wife, Kathy, and I will always cherish our time in Morgantown and we will forever be Mountaineers.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

My dad and I would go to Blockbuster and look for Asian films and we could never find any. If we saw a Jackie Chan movie we would watch that because it was so comforting to see a face similar to ours.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary's. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It's pretty cool.

One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

I'll always be a Disneyland guy. I grew up going there, it's the original, but I love Disney World, I come out here all the time.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

I love a good plaid situation. A plaid blouse or shirt paired with jeans is a no-brainer outfit - it takes me back to grade school.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.