Nellie McKay Quotes

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

I am not someone who holds grudges, and I want to remember the good things about our time with Mourinho.

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.

Today no matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for and find things that feel good when I see them, when I hear them, when I smell them, when I taste them, when I touch them. It is my dominant intent to solicit from experience and exaggerate and talk about and revel in the best of what I see around me here and now.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.

Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far