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Quotes About Nostalgia

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
~ Haley Reinhart
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
~ Heinrich Heine
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
~ Henry Rollins
For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
~ Henry Rollins
The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996.
~ Hillary Clinton
I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.
~ Hope Davis
The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.
~ How to Dress Well
We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
~ Isaac Marion
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.
~ J. D. Pardo
Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see.
~ J. K. Rowling
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
~ James Agee
The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.
~ James Durbin
Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.
~ James Lafferty
I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.
~ Jamie Farr
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
~ Jandy Nelson
There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks
~ Jason Marsden
I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
~ Jason Sudeikis
The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.
~ Jean Carroll
Quite like old times,' the room says.
~ Jean Rhys
I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
~ Jeff Lynne
They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.
~ Jeffrey Jones
Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.
~ Jhane Barnes