Quotes About Nostalgia

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

That picture of me running down the beach - I'll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.