“The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 114 of 136
“The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.”
“Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.”
“My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.”
“I was born in a Negro town.”
“Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.”
“Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.”
“The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.”
“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.”
“Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.”
“There were centuries when civilization had no theater.”
“In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.”
“I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.”
“When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.”
“I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.”
“My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.”
“I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.”
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.”
“Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]”
“Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.”