Quotes About Nostalgia

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

After you eat Grandma's cookies, everything in life gets better.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

My life was over, finished, and I'd never seen Pearl Jam play live

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother's garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.