Quotes About Nostalgia

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.

My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as long as I can remember, we made Nana's waffles in my house. It was a weekend tradition.

I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.

DJs used to mickey-take, have a real poke at Shakin' Stevens.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.

I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.

I have a coffee mug that my dad gave me years ago that has the San Mateo police logo and my dad's name on it, so I brought it to set and used it in a scene. I mean, you don't see it, it's not prominently featured, but I just wanted that connectivity.

In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

In New York, I was into Kool G Rap and Polo, KRS-One, that whole big 80s boom.

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

Back in the day, when 'Pony' came out, I don't believe there was anyone that could dance like me.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I've been doing it for a long time.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.