Quotes About Nostalgia

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

You certainly miss a lot of things about Indianapolis. I miss a lot of friends in Indy. St. Elmo's. The Slippery Noodle. Amalfi's.

The America I love is slipping away.

Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.

My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.

I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.