Quotes About Nostalgia

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.

'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.

I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.

I never forget my first emotions in football, in Sicily.

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.

I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

High school is cool, especially that first-love mentality. That's what 'Sierra Burgess' captures is, like, his first moment of love. That's what I love. I like that innocence.

I remember one of my favorite all-time records was by Edwin Starr: 'Stop Her on Sight.'

I was looking at the sights, thinking, 'I used to play there a couple of years back, and now I'm on the coach with the England team.'

As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.