“I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 127 of 136
“In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.”
“When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.”
“When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.”
“I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.”
“My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.”
“There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.”
“In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.”
“Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.”
“Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.”
“In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.”
“I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.”
“I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.”
“I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.”
“I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.”
“I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.”
“Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.”
“My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.”
“It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.”
“And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”