Quotes About Nostalgia

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.

When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they sent my sister and I to live with our nana-nani at Dadar.

Growing up, we loved 'The Royle Family'. Caroline Aherne, she was just incredible.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.

I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

Wird man nicht immer wieder zum jungen Mädchen, wenn man losläuft, den Armen eines Mannes entgegen?

La mort des parents ne devient définitive que le jour où leur enfants ne sont plus là pour les évoquer. Alors la mémoire de ce qu'ils étaient vraiment s'abolit. Ils survivront, brumeux, dans les souvenirs de leurs petits-enfants, qui ne les auront connus que vieux

Les vieux n'ont pas seulement soixante-dix ans, ils ont encore leurs dix ans, et aussi leurs vingt annsm et puis trente et puis quarante et puis cinquante et en prime les quatre-vingts piges qu'ils voient déjà poindre

There is always a romance that we leave behind in London, and always London enlocks that flower for us, and keeps it fresh, so that when we come back we have our romance again.

Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

When I wrote "God Bless America," they said it was too corny, but it's still around.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

She remembered brighter days, but never spoke of them. It was one of the Great Mistakes, thinking of brightness as a quality of the past.

In her mother's album the activists always looked so relaxed, certain the world would tumble at nothing more than a gentle nudge and the strum of a guitar. Maybe it was the way the sun was always shining in the photographs, or her mother's face, simultaneously eighteen and fifty at the centre of every frame, but it had all seemed so harmless.

Nobody lived in Eden anymore.

He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.

I wish you were around to be her grandma, to tell her what it was like for you growing up, and stories about me from when I was too young to remember

Roland was one of the lucky hedonists to survive El Diablo which swooped in to kill so many of them So many deaths ruined any sense of nostalgia, sadly, remembering the past also meant Remembering the Dead