Quotes About Nostalgia

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

My native land, good night!

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I'm sick of the whole 'my gun will solve all' mentality. (Wulf)

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.