Quotes About Nostalgia

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.