“Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 123 of 136
“It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.”
“Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.”
“I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.”
“When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.”
“We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.”
“In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.”
“I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.”
“I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.”
“I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.”
“My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.”
“Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two weeks ago...three weeks ago, I was there!' And, little by little, in her memory, the faces all blurred together; she forgot the tunes of the quadrilles; no longer could she so clearly picture the liveries and the rooms; some details disappeared, but the yearning remained.”
“Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.”
“I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.”
“I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.”
“Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.”
“When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.”
“Yesterday's dust determined today's range of vision”
“Today's future is Tomorrow's past”
“I've grown up watching football my whole life.”