“I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 87 of 136
“I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas”
“We don't know what we have until we find it.”
“In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.”
“He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.”
“The Warrior remembers the past.”
“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.”
“The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.”
“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”
“Like the children we will never ever cease to be.”
“I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.”
“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.”
“Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.”
“Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.”
“I look at Canada like a second home.”
“My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'”
“The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.”
“Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you”
“Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.”
“I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.”