Quotes About Nostalgia

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke.

Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.