“I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 7 of 136
“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”
“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.”
“Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.”
“I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'”
“My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.”
“At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.”
“I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.”
“But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.”
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
“True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane”
“Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
“There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'”
“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”
“Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.”
“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”
“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.”