Quotes About Nostalgia

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

I don't have anyone to be reunited with. My whole reception class is on Facebook.

Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.

I'm a fan of the hand-me-down recipes - friends, family, bake sales, community cookbooks - those are the recipes that have withstood the test of time and fed many hungry fans.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to reckon with the passage of time.

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.

I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.