“The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 11 of 136
“I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.”
“Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.”
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment.”
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.”
“You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.”
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
“Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.”
“If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past”
“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.”
“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”
“The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.”
“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.”
“You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.”
“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
“You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.”