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Quotes About Nostalgia

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
~ Rick Bragg
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
~ William Faulkner
I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home
~ Happy Chandler
You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
~ Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.
~ Bess Truman
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
~ Cherrie Moraga
Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.
~ Gregory Alan Isakov
Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
~ James Elroy Flecker
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
~ Wallace Stegner
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
~ G.K. Chesterton, The Thing
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
~ Graham Nelson
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
~ Eli Wallach
That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
~ Sarah Silverman
One is always at home in one's past.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Emo is over, you can all go home now
~ Pete Wentz
I long for home, long for the sight of home.
~ Homer
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
~ Quentin Tarantino
There's no place like home. And there's no toilet like your own.
~ Taylor York
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
~ Tom Shales
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
~ Susan Strasberg