Quotes About Nostalgia

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.