“Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 65 of 136
“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”
“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.”
“It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.”
“I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.”
“I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.”
“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
“We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.”
“In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.”
“I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.”
“So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.”
“A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.”
“When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.”
“History casts its shadow far into the land of song.”
“They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.”
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”
“I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.”
“I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.”
“I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.”