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Quotes About Nostalgia

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
~ George Michael
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
~ Jane Monheit
'House' was such a special part of my life.
~ Jennifer Morrison
The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...
~ John Ashbery
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
~ Charles Bukowski
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
~ Evelyn Waugh
And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.
~ Andy Warhol
My 80s were the best years of my life!
~ Besse Cooper
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
~ Bonnie Hunt
Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.
~ Brendon Urie
Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
~ John Green
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
~ Margaret Mitchell
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
~ Gillian Anderson
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
~ Norman McLaren
I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.
~ Reed Mullin
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
~ William J. Clinton
I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There's been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything
~ Shania Twain
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.
~ Sherwood Anderson
I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.
~ Tim McGraw
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~ Truman Capote
Going back to something is harder than you think.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day