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Quotes About Nostalgia

Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.
~ Paula Poundstone
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
~ John Cheever
For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.
~ Patrick Modiano
The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.
~ Colonel Sanders
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
~ Hayden Christensen
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
~ Graeme Le Saux
I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
~ Johnny Depp
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
~ Cher
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
~ Philip Pullman
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
~ Dwight Yoakam
There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
~ Richard Llewellyn
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.
~ Jasper Carrott
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
~ Jeff Kinney
The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.
~ George Kotsiopoulos
I ain't getting on no time machine.
~ Marvin Barnes
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
~ Johnny Mercer
To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
~ Huey Lewis
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.
~ Lance Morrow
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.
~ Josh Billings
Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.
~ Archie Manning