Those Good Old Days Quotes

#1. Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

Rami Malek

#2. Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Mark Twain

#3. I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Rose Schneiderman

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Nancy Friday

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

Kathy Bryson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Scott Millett

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

Jon Stewart

#13. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

Marsha Norman

#16. 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

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

Rick Riordan

#18. Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads ...

Joseph Epstein

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

Ernst Gombrich

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Minae Mizumura

#28. 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

#29. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

Frank Abagnale

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth
Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of
those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me.

Steven Tyler

#34.
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

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

Greg Farshtey

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Jay Leno

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

Anonymous

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

Liane Moriarty

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

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

Les Dawson

#48. 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

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

Alonzo Bodden

#50. 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

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

Dick Gregory

#52. Anyway, Phillip isn't like that. From what I can see, Phillip has good judgement and he genuinely cares about me. And those might be rare qualities in seventeen-year-old boys these days. Not that I'm an expert. Although I am getting better at it.

Melody Carlson

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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.

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Mohammed Hanif

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Alan Gibbons

#63. 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

#64. 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