Quotes About Nostalgia

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

It was a life I didn't want to leave behind.It was a life I didn't want to forget.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.