“As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 49 of 136
“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.”
“What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.”
“Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.”
“My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”
“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”
“Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.”
“One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.”
“I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
“Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.”
“He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”
“Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.”
“Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.”
“I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.”
“I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.”
“I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”
“Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.”
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all”