“Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 80 of 136
“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.”
“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”
“I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
“Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces”
“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”
“I take this continent with me into the grave.”
“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.”
“I remember things the way they should have been.”
“There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.”
“Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.”
“I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.”
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.”
“Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?”
“By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.”
“There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.”
“Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.”
“The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.”
“So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.”
“`Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not sing one note for you, if you should so command, Although you are a princess, a princess of the land.”