Quotes About Nostalgia

Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;No harp like my own could so cheerily play,And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

All glories of flesh vanish, and this, the glory of infantine beauty seen in the mirror of memory, soonest of all.

Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown.

When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

Whenever I come here to Ilocos, I get sentimental because I always remember that as a child, I would ride a bike with my father in Paoay near where they were shooting 'Panday.'

My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.

I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.