Being Nostalgic Quotes

#1. I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

Eddie Vedder

#2. 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.

Stewart O'Nan

#3. I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

Jenny Hval

#4. I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

Lena Dunham

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

David Burnett

#6. I don't know if I am romanticizing, mythologizing, or being nostalgic. I assume all three. That seems to be how the brain breaks things down after a certain age. I

Marc Maron

#7. I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.

Alexis Taylor

#8. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

#9. I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Mark Hoppus

#10. Am I nostalgic for film? ... I mean, it's had a good run, hasn't it? You know, I'm not nostalgic for a technology. I'm nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren't being made now.

Roger Deakins

#11. For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

Robert Lorenz

#12. It would be a den for overgrown children looking for an indulgence, something nostalgic, something simultaneously luxurious and youthful. Much like a pharmaceutical drug or being in love, Annie's cupcakes would make you feel better.

Meg Donohue

#13. For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories ... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.

Diane Warren

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

Douglas Adams

#16. Highly undiversified means investing fully in those things that fit squarely within the three

James C. Collins

#17. Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet.

Luc Sante

#18. I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

Lauren Kate

#19. Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Larry McMurtry

#20. And though I am not nostalgic for what we did have, I am hopeful about life being filled with everything we didn't.

Chelsea Fagan

#21. I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

David Bailey

#22. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

#23. The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed.

Rajneesh

#24. Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Richard Louv

#25. Behind them, attached to the harness, was a

Kristin Hannah

#26. I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

John Darnielle

#27. In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Bob Gunton

#28. I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

Shakira

#29. For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

Nick Clooney

#30. My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

#31. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Robert Browning