Quotes About Nostalgia

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

I lived with my grandmother for a year when I was very young, and even to this day, when I tell my mother events that took place, she can't believe that I can recall that far.

People still recall my show 'Philips Top 10' with Pankaj Kapoor. Those characters were lovable.

Romantic films have a greater recall value.

One has to spend time sort of really going back through one's memories. When you do start doing that then, you do recall more as time goes on.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for a living, and then also to try to recapture that feeling that we had when we were telling those stories in the summer.