Good Old Days Quotes - Page 2

• In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Atheism, Age

  Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.

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• Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Rough Edges, Nostalgia

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• I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Talking, America

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, White, Remember

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• The good old days are now.

  Tom Clancy

  Old Days

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

  Jim Carrey

  Obscurity, Poverty, Life Is

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, People, Important

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• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, Expression, People

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• I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Charging, Old Days

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

  Steffi Graf

  Hands, Diaries, Might

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• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

  Bette Davis

  Hero, People, Giving

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Missing, Middle East

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

  Dave Grohl

  Focus, Stories, Done

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• We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

  Will Rogers

  Past, America, Hot

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• Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

  Andy Rooney

  War, People, World

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• What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

  Cathy Guisewite

  Winning, Trying, Sitting

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• Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

  Arnold Wesker

  Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis

  "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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• I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Dream, Mean

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• I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

  Kabir Bedi

  Nostalgia, Old Days

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• These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Guy, Way, Pool

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• A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

  Chelsea Handler

  Islands, July, Guy

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