Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

I'd go back to Leeds at any time, but not right now.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.