Nostalgic Quotes

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

I'm not really a nostalgic person.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

I like being nostalgic and maybe crying a little bit.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.