“One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 130 of 136
“Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.”
“I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?”
“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”
“And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.”
“We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.”
“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”
“We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.”
“We are now as I wished we could be then.”
“I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.”
“He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her”
“Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”
“Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.”
“Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.”
“The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.”
“I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.”
“So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”
“After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.”
“Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.”
“My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”