“'House' was such a special part of my life.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 67 of 136
“His native home deep imag'd in his soul.”
“When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen”
“The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.”
“There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.”
“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
“I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.”
“For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.”
“All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
“Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.”
“It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.”
“Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.”
“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”
“Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.”
“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.”
“John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.”
“I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.”
“Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though Im older than them, we did cross over a little bit.”
“We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”