Quotes About Nostalgia

The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

I remember, when I was ten, I wanted to look like Em. I had the bleached blonde hair.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.

Every ten years, we get a new old school. In 1987, we thought 1977 was the best era in hip-hop. Here we are in 2007, and we're discussing '97/'98, when 50 Cent just started.

Why would it matter to anybody if a game developer talks about a project that they worked on ten years ago that was canceled? It really bums me out to think about how many of those games have been lost to time.

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a tendency to do that at some point in our career. So looking back on that, it's fun to laugh at it.

Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.

I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.

I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.