Quotes about Nostalgia

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

Of the unchanging things, the town in which you first saw the light is one of the most unchanging. It is always a place of monotony but at the same time, as you grow, change, go away, remember, return, and go away again, it is one of the most inexhaustibly rich places. And yet what it is is so nearly nothing, except for the dull, drab, lonely, lost objects of it, that you never know, each time you return to it, what it is that holds you so strongly to it.

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.