49 Best Nostalgia Quotes

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating. - Jack Handey

The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. - Jack Handey

A niece is a little bit of childhood that never fades away.

Aunts are the keepers of childhood memories and the makers of new ones.

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. – Robert Hunter ("Brown-Eyed Women")

We used to climb trees, play outside, drink from the hose. Now kids just sit in front of screens. – Lenny Feder

When I was your age, I didn’t have shoes until I was 13. – Rob Hilliard

I don’t want to grow up. Growing up sucks. – Marcus Higgins

We’re just five guys having fun, like we used to. – Lenny Feder

I always thought we’d have forever. – Ellie

Here's looking at you, kid. – Rick Blaine

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. – Henry Hill

Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over.

It was the time of my life. I was 21 years old and it was the time of my life.

What happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type. – Tony Soprano

Remember when is the lowest form of conversation. – Tony Soprano

Lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over. – Tony Soprano

The truth is, you may spend the rest of your life trying to recapture the success of one moment. – Bobbie Barrett

Why must I be a princess? I was happy in the bamboo. – Kaguya

I want to go back... to that time of happiness. – Kaguya

I'll never be able to eat pudding with you again. – Makoto Konno

It’ll be like the Blitz. They got through that. We’ll get through this. – Jim

I just want everything to be like it was. – Hilda

I knew the house would be empty. I knew you'd be here. I knew it... I knew it... – Bob Parr

I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. – Holden Caulfield

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

The only thing that came to her in her final years was a feverish nostalgia and the voracity of the forgotten.

He was still too young to know that the memory of the heart eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.

I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy. – Damian Leigh

The Shire... I want to see it again, Sam. I want to see the Shire. – Frodo

Back in '82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. – Uncle Rico

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them. – Andy Bernard

You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser? – Joe Dirt

I did once. Went up on the mountain, spent the whole damn summer. – Ennis Del Mar

We were young, we were stupid, and we were having fun. – Jordan Belfort

You've been a very good dream, a beautiful, beautiful dream. – Rory Gilmore

We've been looking for that ball for over 30 years. – Narrator (Scotty Smalls)

That was the best summer I ever had. – Narrator (Scotty Smalls)

That gum you like is going to come back in style. – The Man From Another Place

The world's still the same. There's just less in it. – Hector Barbossa

The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year. – Elwood Blues

We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline! – Jake Blues

George, remember what it was like when we were their age? – Winifred Banks

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. – Narrator

I had a date. – Steve Rogers

Turn around. Look at what you seeeeee. In her face. The mirror of your dreeeeeams. – Dustin Henderson

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. – Wooderson

I don't make films for children. I make them for all the people who were children once. – Hayao Miyazaki