Quotes About Nostalgia

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

The good old days are now.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.