Quotes About The Good Old Days

#1. Axonn sighed. "Just like the good old days," he said. "Now I remember why I hated them so much.

Greg Farshtey

#2. I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

Scott MacDonald

#3. before long we'll be pining for the good old days, when, no matter how often people failed to uphold the standards of integrity, those standards actually meant something.

Anonymous

#4. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We

Brian McLaren

#5. Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

Jay Leno

#6. Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise.

Anonymous

#7. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.

Liane Moriarty

#8. I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

Steffi Graf

#9. The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

Mario Andretti

#10. The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Les Dawson

#11. I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

Alonzo Bodden

#12.
In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Brooks Atkinson

#13. The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Dick Gregory

#14. She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

Tawni O'Dell

#15. But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a "breviary," though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a "summary."[2]

Seneca.

#16. No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again ... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

Anne Lamott

#17. Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days.

Mohammed Hanif

#18. A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

Chelsea Handler

#19. Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Alan Gibbons

#20. When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Dave Grohl

#21. Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days - that was sad.

Rick Riordan

#22. This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

Jonathan Galassi

#23. We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

Jon Stewart

#24. As your product evolves, adding new features becomes as easy as it was in the good old days of greenfield development.

Scott Millett

#25. The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now.

Clare Boothe Luce

#26. I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

Kathy Bryson

#27. Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Andy Rooney

#28. We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our past is our learnings, our past should stay where it is. And we should let it.

Tony Curl

#29. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

Ernesto Sabato

#30. Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Jerome K. Jerome

#31. What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons.

C.T. Phipps

#32. Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Joel Osteen

#33. The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

David Levithan

#34. Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I'd missed my buddies!

Rick Riordan

#35. What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

#36. I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Kabir Bedi

#37. What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Jennifer Crusie

#38. In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

Brandon Flowers

#39. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.

Steven Pinker

#40. When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

Karl Lagerfeld

#41. When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

P. J. O'Rourke

#42. The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories.

Howard Chaykin

#43. I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

Joseph Force Crater

#44. Hey, remember when you didn't know that you wanted Otter to spray his man babies all over your face and we didn't have to talk about our feelings all the time?"
"Yeah, those were the good old days.

T.J. Klune

#45. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

#46. These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

Richard D. Zanuck

#47. In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Edsger Dijkstra

#48. The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.

Mario Andretti

#49. There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them ...

Tim Wise

#50. Because the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days. (I

Stephen King

#51. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

Jack LaLanne

#52. You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

Jay Leno

#53. We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Will Rogers

#54. Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even works written in non-Western languages.

Minae Mizumura

#55. There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis

#56. Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

Manny Farber

#57. I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

John Muir

#58. The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Paulo Coelho

#59. I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Ed Helms

#60. I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.

Chris Lowell

#61. In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Joe Biden

#62. The good old days are now.

Tom Clancy

#63. I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

Nicholas Haslam

#64. The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

John Lennon

#65. Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

Joel Osteen

#66. And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Jacky Ickx

#67. As people ages, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it

Steven Pinker

#68. and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and

Kenneth Grahame

#69. We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Flora Thompson

#70. You mean when we discovered the secret lair under the hangar where I'd been kept comatose for eight years of my life, then turned into a cyborg by some mystery surgeon before being given away to a family who didn't really want me? Yeah, Thorne, those were the good old days.

Marissa Meyer

#71. It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

Sherry Turkle

#72. Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

Jack LaLanne

#73. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Franklin P. Adams

#74. Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

#75. "The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Alice Childress

#76. I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

Ian MacKaye

#77. The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...

Chris Elliott

#78. This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.

Hollis Seamon

#79. I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward.

Donald Bren

#80. Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?

Karen Marie Moning

#81. I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

Ziggy Marley

#82. I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Jimi Hendrix

#83. Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Michael Leunig

#84. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

Anna Quindlen

#85. Walt: Do you miss the good old days?

Gracie: How old?

Walt: When we were old enough to be good.

Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.

Sean Condon

#86. I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

Ron Brackin

#87. That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead.

Samuel Beckett

#88. I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Karen Marie Moning

#89. A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

Mary Carolyn Davies

#90. In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously ... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

Peter Jackson

#91. The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music.

What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.

For the first time in days, Mo smiled.

Tricia Springstubb

#92. The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

John Humphrys

#93. I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

Craig Groeschel

#94. I feel like I've joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large.

Theo Pauline Nestor

#95. Sam was struck by how good Mary looked. Weight loss. Probably from overwork. Or maybe she didn't enjoy living on the kinds of canned food that, in the old pre-FAYZ days, people had donated to food drives.

Michael Grant

#96. What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

Aubrey Beardsley

#97. In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.

Elizabeth Goudge

#98. Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#99. It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett

#100. See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.

Jeff Kinney