Quotes About Nostalgia

Me gustaría creer que el espíritu de mi madre me cuida, pero esas son niñerías.

Comenzaban por hacer una fogata en el patio con leña y carbón. Encima se colgaba de un trípode una olla de hierro negra por el uso, donde se echaban los ingredientes, en proporción de cuatro tazas de leche por una de azúcar, se aromatizaba con dos palitos de vainilla y la cáscara de un limón, se hervía pacientemente durante horas, revolviendo de vez en cuando con una larguísima cuchara de madera.

La casa de mis abuelos, en el barrio Providencia De Santiago, que entonces era residencial y hoy es un laberinto de comercios y oficinas, era grande y fea, una monstruosidad de cemento, habitaciones de techos altos, corrientes de aire, hollín de estufas de queroseno en las paredes, pesados cortinajes de felpa roja, muebles españoles hechos para durar un siglo, retratos horrendos de parientes muestras y pilas de libros polvorientos. El frente de la casa era señorial.

El tío Ramón tenía tan mala memoria para lo negativo, que en su vejez me llamaba Angélica–mi segundo nombre–y me decía que me durmiera de lado para no aplastar mis alas. Lo repitió hasta el final de sus días, cuando la demencia y el cansancio de vivir lo habían reducido a una sombra de quien fue.

To see my country with the heart, one must read Pablo Neruda, the national poet who in his verses immortalized the imposing landscapes, the aromas and dawns, the tenacious rain and dignified poverty, the stoicism and the hospitality, of Chile. That is the land of my nostalgia, the one I invoke in my solitude, the one that appears as a backdrop in so many of my stories, the one that comes to me in my dreams.

The only place as comforting as a friendly bookstore is probably your grandmother's kitchen. The sight of shelves packed with books of all kinds, the smell of printed paper and coffee, and the secret rustle of the characters that live in the pages warm up any heart.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really.

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.

'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

Zeppelin vinyl is quite revered in audiophile circles.

I think my favorite song is by Led Zeppelin called 'Good Times Bad Times,' a Rolling Stones song called 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' and every song The Beatles ever wrote.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'

When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

I enjoy classic Led Zeppelin.

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.