Quotes About Nostalgia

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.

I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there."

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.