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Quotes About Nostalgia

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
~ Susie Bright
Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.
~ Maggie Steber
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
~ Lorna Luft
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
~ Beverly Cleary
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
~ Winston Churchill
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
~ Mary Wesley
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
~ David Cassidy
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
~ Hallie Ephron
I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.
~ Peter Sohn
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
~ Klaus Nomi
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
~ Patti Smith
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
~ Olivia Williams
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
~ Kajol
I never felt like I had a mother.
~ Quincy Jones
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
~ Kelly Wearstler
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.
~ Leelee Sobieski
Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.
~ Maureen Daly
Really people only like the food that their mothers make.
~ Melissa Francis
I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
~ Michael Sheen
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
~ Patti Smith
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
~ Pete Seeger
My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
~ Rufus Wainwright
The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.
~ Anthony Liccione