Quotes About Nostalgia

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.