Past Times Quotes

The good old days are now.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

I love nostalgia.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

I am fascinated with times past.

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

I would have liked the old days.

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you