Quotes About Nostalgia

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.

Girls' Generation was an important and precious time for me.

I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

I watched 'Predator,' 'Predator 2,' and 'Predators.' I fell asleep during 'Predators,' but then I watched it again. Not because it was boring! Because I was 10!

Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That's probably my legacy on the hockey side.

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

I prefer selective memories. Some songs and some co-workers are all that I want to remember, as memories are not always so pleasant.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

I'm very lucky to go back to my old club, my old home, my old house. To start my new chapter in this second part of my life in the Premier League is going to be something happy. I have very good memories from those four years in Manchester.