Quotes About Nostalgia

It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.

Every day of the show, I'd have about 100 of those rollers all over my head, and I'd have to wear them for hours. I even went to dinner like that a few times! I swear, half of my 'Boy Meets World' pictures have me wearing rollers in them.

I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!

I've got these die-hard fans on Facebook, and you'd swear they haven't heard anything I've done since 1962, 1963.

I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?

Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

We tracked 'Domestic Sweater' live as a full band. It had been a while since we had even performed so in doing so, a sweet innocence arose, as though we were playing in our garage again.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.

The circus leaves a sweet memory.