“When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 71 of 136
“Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”
“Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.”
“Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
“I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.”
“He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”
“The memory of the just survives in Heaven.”
“Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.”
“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”
“Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.”
“Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.”
“I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.”
“I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.”
“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”
“The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.”
“When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.”
“To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.”
“When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.”
“I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.”
“...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.”