“The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 62 of 136
“I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”
“Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?”
“Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.”
“I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.”
“Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.]”
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.”
“I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.”
“I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.”
“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.”
“I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.”
“When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.”
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
“They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.”
“I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.”
“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.”
“I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.”
“I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.”
“The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.”
“What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.”