Quotes About Nostalgia

A memoir is the lost inheritance.

we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives

Now where does he sit as he thinks of her? These years later. A stone of history skipping over the water, bouncing up so she and he have aged before it touches the surface again and sinks.

This was the inheritance she had come back to, the prior life she had run from. She was once more back in a small repeating universe

Not that we are touched by such things as concern, even if false, when we are young. But now, in retrospect, I am touched.

va trebui sa invat cum sa ti duc dorul

There's no trustworthy recording of ages when seen through the eyes of youth

Ora li amava, questi libri rilegati con i dorsi all'italiana, i frontespizi, le illustrazioni ad acquerello, le copertine telate, amava il loro odore, perfino i loro scricchiolii quando li apriva in fetta, quasi si rompesse una serie di minuscole ossa invisibili.

the man used names like passwords, all of them with a brief life span. But this time the thief wished that he had owned the name earlier in his life. He spent the first day imagining moments from his past when he could have been 'Astolphe,' when he might have behaved and participated with more ease and subtlety just for having the epaulette of such a name.

A good pot holds memories.

There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back.

Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.

What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?

I grew up poor. To me, interior decorating is my big-screen TV, my couch and my Simpsons poster.

I saw Sinatra many times. I saw him at Caesars. I saw him at the Sands.

I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the time I was five years old - to the Modernaires and Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.

I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get in that fold and you're around it, you get to experience something that I don't think we'll ever see again. There will never be anybody like Frank Sinatra. Ever.

Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?

Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.

Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.

I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.