Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.

Some days I end up thinking I really wish I was in the car - ike the Sonoma test, the boys tested it and I really missed driving the car there. But there are other days that I dont miss it.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.

We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

Got your eye full?" asked Sara aggressively as he looked at her, repeating the first words she had ever said to him. "Yes, I have," he said smiling.

There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die.

vanilla and turf smells of old books.

White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. June Cleaver was its mother, Andy Griffith was its sheriff, Norman Rockwell was its artist. and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale were its ministers.

A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma and the love and dismay her grandchildren feel for her

Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stoodBy a dirt road, in first dark, and heardThe great geese hoot northward.I could not see them, there being no moonAnd the stars sparse. I heard them.I did not know what was happening in my heart.

the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

The past is a foreign country, which maintains its independence with the same fierce determination as any 'Brexiteer'.

He began to get the feeling that dear Uncle Carol "was drifting about in an Edwardian summer

Sometimes I wish I could go back to when I was younger, when the future was filled with hope and possibility. I love it. I really love it so much. I often try to convince myself that I am back—that I'm in my youth and my family and friends are around me, and we're all looking forward to the future.

Worlds that have died and will never return still live on in my memories, and that truly is a marvel.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Ultimately, the most romantic thing is the heart, and every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.

Some people said our clothes looked like the 1950s; others believed the 1940s were our era. I wasn't sure. All I knew was that my clothes didn't go out of style because they'd never been in style in the first place.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?