Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Where have all the flowers gone

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

Ere long this golden light shall pass and fadeExcept all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made.

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

I didn't have any pets growing up.