Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm a real mellow guy, for the most part - yeah, no, not with Kobe. By far my favorite player of all time. His career was basically my childhood.

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.

I have talked about this before, I have always been bad at saving memorabilia.

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

There have been a lot of memorable meals in my life and in my career.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

I have great memories.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

Even my early memories of Chandni Chowk are all about food.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.

I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.

I see Calcutta as a place where I have a lot of memories... a lot of fond memories of coming back here and helping the children.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.