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Quotes About Nostalgia

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
~ John Thorn
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
~ Bob Seger
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
~ T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
~ Hugh Hefner
I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
~ Amber Heard
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
~ Ben Folds
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
~ Sting
Nothing wrong with wanting to go home.
~ Stephon Marbury
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
~ Joe Strummer
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
~ Charles Kingsley
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
~ Cameron Monaghan
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
~ John Steinbeck
My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.
~ Jon Foreman
Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.
~ Cornelia Funke
Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
~ Tom Lehrer
A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.
~ Michelle Gomez
When I was at home I was in a better place
~ William Shakespeare
Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.
~ Su Ting
There is no place like home.
~ L. Frank Baum
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
~ Paul Theroux
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
~ Debi Mazar
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
~ Janet Fitch