Quotes About Nostalgia

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

When I was your age, television was called books.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The best ears of our lives.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel.

A girl's legs are her best friends, but the best of friends must part.

Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

Google earth view gives you the amazing chance to see amazing places all over the world, from the comfort of your own home. With this amazing privilege, what do most people look at? Their own house, their friends houses, and mostly places they have already been to.