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Quotes About Nostalgia

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.
~ Tod Wodicka
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.
~ Henrik Bering
Memories are nice, but dreams are better.
~ John Anthony Miller
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
~ Clarence Clemons
When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.
~ Russell Tovey
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
~ John Denver
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
~ Orlando Bloom
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
~ Richard Serra
The prospect of going home is very appealing.
~ David Ginola
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
~ Dakota Fanning
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
~ Emma Bunton
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
~ Suzanne La Follette
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The thrill of coming home has never changed.
~ Guy Pearce
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
~ Tom Jones
Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.
~ Jean Klein
More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.
~ Scott O'Dell
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.
~ Nick Mancuso
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
~ Isak Dinesen
It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.
~ Eric Roth
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
~ Mark Lowry