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Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.
~ Nicole Sullivan
Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.
~ Noel Gallagher
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
~ Patti Smith
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
~ Peter Criss
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
~ Radha Mitchell
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
~ Robert Pattinson
You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.
~ Rodman Philbrick
I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.
~ Sara Cox
You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.
~ Shelagh Delaney
It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.
~ Sidney Crosby
I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.
~ Stanley Donwood
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!
~ Stephen Bruner
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
~ Tom Petty
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
~ William S. Burroughs
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
~ Zhang Yimou
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
~ James Joyce, Ulysses
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.
~ Heidi Klum
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
~ Alain de Botton
It's been a long time since I've had champagne.
~ Anton Chekhov
When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
~ Brad Pitt
Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
~ Caryl Rivers
Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.
~ Connie Willis
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
~ D. J. Cotrona
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
~ Daphne Guinness