“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 25 of 136
“I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.”
“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
“Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.”
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”
“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.”
“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”
“Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.”
“Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.”
“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
“Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.”
“You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.”
“I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.”
“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”
“Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.”
“Each place along the way is somewhere you had to be in order to be here.”
“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.”
“The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.”