Quotes About Nostalgia

There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

You were never what I wanted to forget.

I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.

It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time youre involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.