Quotes about Nostalgia

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.

I had a list going in my head that fall, of what all I would tell my little brother one day. But time passed and eventually my mind had only one thought in it as regards childhood. For any kid that gets that as an option: take that sweet thing and run with it. Hide. Love it so hard. Because it's going to fucking leave you and not come back.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.