Quotes About Nostalgia

I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

It is difficult to overstate the impact that this program had on children of the 1940s. This writer vividly remembers an episode when the Shadow tracked down a murdering scarecrow. When the killer's coat was ripped off, revealing nothing but straw, the implications were so terrifying that the young writer-to-be could not sleep in an unlighted room for weeks. Today it's the highest of all high camp, scaring neither the aging collector nor his jaded children.

Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches.

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

Most of the time, I played by myself, with my toys. I liked the more complex toys, especially blocks and Lincoln Logs. I still remember the taste of Lincoln Logs.

Like all places revisited, New Sandhurst was older, smaller and more shabby than he recalled.