Quotes About Nostalgia

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.

It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Ô maudite enfance, qui ne veut pas mourir !

También era un alma piadosa, con esa fe de Flandes donde subsiste un poco del catolicismo español, esa fe en la que el terror y los escrúpulos pesan más que la confianza, y que siente más miedo del infierno que nostalgia del cielo". "Brujas la muerta" (1892), capítulo VIII, p. 64.

Even during the nights, their nights punctuated by unending kisses, they were sometimes irritated by the carillon, which sounded every quarter of an hour from the top of the belfry opposite. A slow, indistinct jingling which seemed to come from far, far away, from the depths of childhood, from the depths of the ages. It was like a dead bouquet falling, an autumn of sound shedding its leaves over the town. ("The Dead Town")

You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.

The past grows like a weed.

The past settles into afternoons, that's where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It's always afternoon when you remember something, at least that's how it is for me. Everything is in the light.

Lotte, I asked without beating around the bush, what decade would you choose—the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties? She fell silent for a moment and gave the best answer that can be given to such a question: I'd like to be twelve years old in each of them. That would be my answer, too.

If someone asks me what I did last year, I can safely answer that I smoked.

Parents try so hard to create moments their children will remember when they're grown, and it rarely works out the way they expected.

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Es uz kapu vainagiem skatos ?oti nopietni, - Larijs aizr?d?ja. - Amerik? tos Ziemassv?tkos karina uz durv?m. Pie?emu, ka t?p?c, lai atg?din?tu - cik labi, ka v?l neesam zem tiem.

Roger and I would make our way down through the breathless olive groves, vibrating with the cries of the cicadas, and pad our way along the dusty road, Roger sneezing voluptuously as his great paws stirred up the dust, which went up his nose like snuff.