Quotes about Nostalgia

we drove up to the three-shaded house

I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don't even recognize the world we live in today.

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

First poems! They must be written on casual scraps of faded paper, interspersed here and there with withered flowers, or a lock of blond hair, or a discolored piece of ribbon, and the trace of a tear must still be visible in several places ... But first poems that are printed, in livid black and white, on dreadfully smooth paper are poems that have lost the finest points of their sweet, virginal charm, and now arouse a ghastly feeling of distaste in the author.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.