Top 130 Nostalgic Quotes

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

Even though I have a warm, nostalgic view of spam fritters, if you gave them to me now, I would probably find them absolutely disgusting.

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.

Yeah, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to make music that’s not nostalgic at all, and it’s really, really hard for me to imagine.

I’m totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I’ve enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I’m more excited about the next music.

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I’m not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

Sometimes when you’re working on a period piece, there’s this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

It’s nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people’s lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the ’80s.

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

I’m not super nostalgic for friendships I’ve lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that’s okay.

The phrase ‘blue plate special’ has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

We’ve just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.

The words ‘Space Age’ have a quaint, nostalgic tone – sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching ‘The Jetsons.’

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

Most ‘Monty Python’ fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

You get nostalgic and you’ll get knocked on your butt.

All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it’s very nostalgic and fun, but also it’s cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.

I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on – I’ve got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I’ve got this big VHS collection.

My favorite pieces that I’ve written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

Malayalis tend to be nostalgic about rustic storylines, pastoral themes and ordinary folk who lead a simple way of life.

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that’s what sampling does in songs; it’s making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.

I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That’s one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

I’m not a nostalgic person.

I’m nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.

We don’t need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.

Me and my dad, we’re both quite nostalgic people.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I don’t think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don’t think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I’m certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

If you look at ‘Threatz’ and ‘Parents,’ then you look at ‘Zone 3,’ all of that is nostalgic.

If I’m feeling nostalgic, the first thing I do is open a packet of spaghetti, olive oil in a pan, garlic, a little bit of chili, a sprinkle of fresh parsley, and that’s it. It reminds me of my mum.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

I don’t listen to punk any more, unless it’s right before I play. Not that I don’t like it, it’s nostalgic. But, it’s for kids and it should be… it’s not art, it’s expression.

Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app’s filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.

What I never seem to understand about feminist-bashing conservative women is their inability to see how ironic it is that they attend political rallies, share their opinions, and cast their ballots when the America they’re nostalgic about wouldn’t allow them to do any of those things.

I’m very much a nostalgic optimist.

We had a much deeper sense of community in ’67 than we do in ’97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it’s not as if ’67 was a time when things were so good.

We have a tendency in Quebec – and I include myself in this – to describe ourselves using the past. We’re always nostalgic.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we’re from, or when we do go back we’re so nostalgic about it.

That person who’s going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we’re not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don’t play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I’m a very sentimental guy; I’m a very nostalgic guy.

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don’t use nostalgia to be kitschy.

People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location.

When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. ‘On the Road’ exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody – part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

I can always tell when my mother, an artist who grew up in Switzerland, starts to feel nostalgic for home. It is the smell of the crispy apple tarts, the ginger cookies, and the creamy muesli full of nuts and fresh berries. The scent alone delivers a rush of childhood memories for me.

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn’t have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I think a lot of people’s memories of the ’90s are nostalgic. The economy was pretty strong, there was good TV and movies, yet our politics were changing quickly and dramatically.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That’s why it’s called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it’s purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.

As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.