“So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 129 of 136
“I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.”
“My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.”
“Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.”
“History repeats herself.”
“Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.”
“I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.”
“My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.”
“Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.”
“The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.”
“Use your past as one of your mentors.”
“My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.”
“A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.”
“When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.”
“I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.”
“My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.”
“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
“And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.”
“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”
“One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.”