“I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 58 of 136
“As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.”
“At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.”
“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.”
“For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
“Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.”
“As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.”
“I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.”
“Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.”
“And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?”
“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.”
“When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'”
“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.”
“I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.”
“I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.”
“There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured; it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.”
“An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.”