“There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 14 of 136
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
“When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.”
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.”
“There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
“I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.”
“I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.”
“I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.”
“I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.”
“View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.”
“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.”
“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.”
“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
“There's no friends like the old friends.”
“In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.”