“Time's the thief of memory”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 42 of 136
“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”
“When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.”
“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”
“Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.”
“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”
“My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.”
“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”
“And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.”
“I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.”
“The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.”
“I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.”
“I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.”
“I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind”
“America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.”
“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”
“The older I become, the more I think about my mother.”
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.”