Back Quote by Peter Baynham

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

— Panos Cosmatos

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I…

— Marielle Heller

Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the…

— Jools Holland

I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of nostalgia for…

— Mark Ryden

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

— Elliott Smith

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I…

— Tom Waits

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had…

— Beatrix Potter

I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out.

— Robert Del Naja

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

— Sophie Dahl

I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we…

— Regina Spektor

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I…

— Olga Tokarczuk