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Quotes About Nostalgia

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
~ Morrissey
Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.
~ Tina Fey, Bossypants
Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.
~ Steven Wright
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
~ Alan Coren
I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
~ Robert Orben
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
~ Aleister Crowley, Moonchild
The only thing that makes me cry at weddings is the DJ's playlist.
~ Natasha Leggero
Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
~ Bob Monkhouse
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
~ Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
~ Billy Connolly
My dad was nothing but a bingo call.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.
~ Carl Barât
Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past
~ Sudeshna Dutta
She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.
~ Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.
~ Maria Waters
We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
~ Phyllis Theroux
As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand."This makes me feel like a five-year-old, " I said, licking it off."If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?
~ Mindi Scott, Freefall
(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.
~ Bruce Springsteen
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
~ Derek Landy, Dark Days
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire