Quotes About Nostalgia

I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.

When 'Family Matters,' and 'Full House' were on, back then it was a simpler time.

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time.

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

I'm from Pennsylvania, and that love for the simplicity of life never left me.

'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.

Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.

Like many men in their forties, he tended to dress in the style of his youth as if it were the current fashion.

while she discounted his adoration of her beauty—based, as it was, on a much younger woman—she also relied on it, and as time passed she was grateful for the restorative powers of his memory. No one else saw her the way he did. He knew the eighteenyear-old lifeguard she used to be, and the fashionable grad student, the coltish young mother.

In particular, conservatives sensed that liberals had undermined traditional values. This climate was ripe for a politics that celebrated a nostalgic ideal of the home.

For Republicans, that "home" invariably meant a gauzy view of an idealized America somewhere in the 1950s that never existed.

Ho sentito la terra del mio paese mandare un lungo sospiro sotto i loro piedi e mi sono scese le lacrime.

Spesso sorvolo in sogno il mio lontano paese ntale, Fengyangshu. Mi vedo avvicinarmi ogni giorno di più a un fiume dalle acque torbide, che scorre da est a ovest. Lo attraverso dirigendomi verso la riva sinistra, dove i campi di papavero creano una possente onda rossa che si gonfia con il vento, e mi afferra, mi solleva, e mi sospinge verso quella Fengyangshu dove sono nato.

Chissà se al mondo esiste qualcun altro, oltre a noi palestinesi, che sente la mancanza di un aeroporto.

She held out her hand and we sat there together like grade-school kids on a field trip. "Line up in twos and no talking." Life itself is a peculiar outing. Sometimes I still feel like I need a note from my mother.

Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me.

regardless of social status, we derive comfort from our stuff; the familiar warp and weft of our lives

My practice is to cut the finished product on the diagonal and then wrap it in waxed paper that I still fold the way my Aunt Gin taught me. I'd added two Milano cookies and, being ever so dainty, I included two paper napkins, one to serve as a place mat and one for dabbing my lips.