Quotes About Nostalgia

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those stories because they were like poetry.

When it rains, nobody hides inside. You just go out and enjoy it. The other thing I remember is begging my grandmother for money to go and get a grapenut ice cream.

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

I was raised on NBC television.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I was raised on pop music.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

'Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure' - the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him - I cried.

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.