Matthew Nable Quotes

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

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.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

I remember getting a Phoenix Suns T-shirt. I had that Phoenix Suns T-shirt forever. It's the funny things you remember as a kid, but it was a blast.

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.

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

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.