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Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.
~ Dominic Riccitello
There's always room for Jell-O
~ David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.
~ Tawny Lara
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
~ Morgan Freeman
I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.
~ June Lockhart
Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers.
~ Prince
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
~ Nigella Lawson
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
~ Johnny Depp
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.
~ Azzedine Alaia
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
~ Rickey Henderson
Memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.
~ Bobby Darin
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
~ Robert Breault
Strawberry Shortcake called, she wants her outfit back
~ Ilona Andrews
These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
~ Robert Mitchum
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
~ Walter Cronkite
Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
~ David Lee Roth
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
~ Josh Radnor
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
~ Victoria Wood
When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.
~ Ryan Adams
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
~ Willa Cather
She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.
~ Andy Garcia
The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.
~ Tom Mix
I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.
~ Grace Slick
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt