Quotes About Nostalgia

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

I'm trying to think of the last time I had onions.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

I been away a long time.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.