“Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 73 of 136
“I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula].”
“But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures”
“Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.”
“All language is a longing for home.”
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.”
“The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.”
“One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.”
“First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.”
“Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.”
“The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.”
“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”
“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
“One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on guitars and drum machines in my buddy's apartment, to a bike ride through the parks and up and down the streets all over the city, to the ocean, right into the water. I remember we were swimming outer ways and we got to a certain place where we wanted to see - or I wanted to see - how deep the water was.”
“I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for a bit? Like, see what makes her tick. I had this dream once about Britney, that we were going to get married or something, and so I had to meet her parents but we were stuck on a beach in these sand dunes - and at this point between the dreams and self-portrait, you know way too much about me.”
“Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.”
“Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.”
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”