“How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 66 of 136
“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”
“Genealogists live in the past lane.”
“There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.”
“Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!”
“We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.”
“Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.”
“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”
“I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.”
“You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
“These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.”
“When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.”
“I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.”
“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.”
“London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.”
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.”
“An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.”
“When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.”
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”