Quotes About Nostalgia

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.