“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 5 of 136
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”
“I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.”
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.”
“The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me”
“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”
“When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.”
“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
“My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.”
“Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.”
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
“Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.”
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
“Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.”
“I used to collect charms and bracelets.”