Quotes About Nostalgia

I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.

Sometimes, I wish we were girls again, safe. Mabel snorted in contempt. When has it ever been safe to be a girl?

I still want to cry when I hear Sam's voice. Sam raised an eyebrow at Evie's jibe. She smiled back.

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.

Lilian Jackson Braun

relic from an old schoolhouse: a cast-iron base

You never forgot those old movies, Qwill. You still want reporters to type with their hats on and poke the keys with two fingers.

An object that has been owned and cherished by other human beings for centuries develops a personality of its own that reaches out to you. It's like an old friend. Do

They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.' " Mykolos

There's no more beautiful place in the world than northeastern Ohio in the summertime.

She spread her arms wide to encompass the old pine table they had painted robin's egg blue, lightly sanding it in places so the white primer showed through. She had pulled out Aunt Evie's moss green platters and bowls, filling enough of them with everything from cheesy quiches to creamy chocolate pies, butterscotch cupcakes to the beef bourguignon to cover every inch of counter space. The place smelled heavenly.

How could memories feel so close and so far away at the same time?

For high school graduation in Finland, you wear a fluffy white hat with a black band. There's a ceremony in which they hand out diplomas, and when you come home all your relatives are there with lots of champagne, flowers, and cake. And there's also a party for the entire class at a local restaurant. We did all that, and I guess I had fun, but I don't remember anything special about it. But ask me about the specs on my 68008-chip machine and I can rattle them off with total recall.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

I need to hold on to the faded love 'cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers

Every time I go away from home seems first time.....

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special