Quotes About Nostalgia

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.

Throughout his career, he was a champion of old songs: often he claimed that, in all his years on the air, he never introduced a new tune. He didn't croon, he said: he just sang 'em. His favorites were such as Dark-town Strutters' Ball and Every Cloud Must Have a Silver Lining. Frankel died June 13, 1948, but shows he had already transcribed were continued.

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

Every life has a soundtrack.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.