Quotes About Nostalgia

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.