Quotes about Nostalgic

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

There are places in which things don't change. These are a substitute for one's memory.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

we inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness—we long for something better. Were we merely the product of natural selection and survival of the fittest, we'd have no grounds for believing any ancient happiness existed. But we are all nostalgic for an Eden we've only seen fleeting hints of. Unfortunately

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned

And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world.