“I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 90 of 136
“When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?”
“I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.”
“He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.”
“I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.”
“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.”
“I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.”
“I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.”
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.”
“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.”
“I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.”
“The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.”
“Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.”
“You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.”
“We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.”
“I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.”
“My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.”
“The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.”
“I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.”
“[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.”