Quotes About Nostalgia

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

I loved Jared Leto. My So-Called Life, that was my jam. And Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet. Every 14-year-old girl was obsessed with that.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

Country life has its advantages, ' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good. . . and there are gooseberries.

Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.

The flames of our memories keep us alive!

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!

I hold the memories of you in my heart.

How strange the feelings when it was not your name anymore that appeared as that person's favorite.

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.