“Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 78 of 136
“The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.”
“Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...”
“Often a retrospect delights the mind.”
“I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.”
“African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.”
“I was one of the kids who sold Cokes in the stadium. It was a lot of fun being around that environment, watching games and visualizing being there when I got older.”
“For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.”
“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”
“Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.”
“My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.”
“I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.”
“From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.”
“A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.”
“Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.”
“Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.”
“and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.”
“The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.”
“Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”