“Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 101 of 136
“Old Time the clock-setter.”
“The old folk, time's doting chronicles.”
“We have some salt of our youth in us.”
“Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.”
“Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.”
“Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.”
“O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.”
“I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.”
“If a song was ever good, it's still good.”
“My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.”
“The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.”
“Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.”
“My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.”
“The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.”
“I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.”
“I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.”
“Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.”
“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”