Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house... but we never used it.

When it first started, I loved the fact 'This Morning' was an adult version of Saturday morning television.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.

My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

I'm an old-fashioned girl, and as a kid, I used to go on holidays to Scarborough.

I want to go back to the '80s, wish India could go back to '80s, when life was simple.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

You know how certain adults feel, the older they get, the longer the walk was to school? Well, I don't feel like that.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own when I get home. But she likes it. She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.