“We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 9 of 136
“I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.”
“Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.”
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.”
“If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].”
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.”
“A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.”
“Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.”
“How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.”
“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”
“I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.”
“I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.”
“Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.”
“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”
“The past is what the present is doing now.”
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
“If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”