Quotes About Nostalgia

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Uncertainty worries us. Maybe that's why so many people live in the past.

I think the only reason people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the only things that dont change when everybody else does.