“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 16 of 136
“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”
“When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.”
“I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again.”
“I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.”
“If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.”
“My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.”
“Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.”
“I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.”
“That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.”
“It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.”
“We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.”
“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
“I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.”
“I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.”
“Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.”
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.”
“I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.”
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”