Khalil Gibran Quotes

Nostalgia is very powerful.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

St. Louis still is going to be a special place for me, whether I'm playing 3,000 miles away or 5,000 miles away.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

Generally, I'm attracted to videos that hit me some way nostalgically.

I'll always hold Middlesbrough close to my heart. I'll always remember my time there.

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

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

I'm quite happy to leave it still feeling that way, leave it before it starts feeling like a job. ... I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.