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own associations.
    â€” L OUIS L’A MOUR
    Ride the River
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    I F YOU’RE YEARNING FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS . . .
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    If you’re yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.
    â€” G RIFF N IBLACK
    in Indianapolis
News
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    We have all got our “good old days” tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in dreams like cats to favorite armchairs.
    â€” B RIAN C ARTER
    Where The Dream Begins
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    Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was.
    â€” W ILL R OGERS
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    Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    In the old days, when things got rough, what you did was without.
    â€” B ILL C OPELAND
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    Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.
    â€”The United Church Observer
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    The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.
    â€” M ILTON S . E ISENHOWER
    The Wine Is Bitter
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    There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
    â€” L ILLIAN E ICHLER W ATSON
    Light from Many Lamps
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    Nothing seems to go as far as it did. Even nostalgia doesn’t reach back as far as it used to.
    â€”Changing Times
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    You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
    â€” J AN G LIDEWELL
    in St. Petersburg
Times
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    A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don’t set up housekeeping.
    â€” D AN B ARTOLOVIC
    KPUG-KNWR, Bellingham, Wasington.
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    The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
    â€” I VERN B ALL
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    The older you get, the greater you were.
    â€” L EE G ROSSCUP



H OME IS A PLACE . . .
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    Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
    â€” J OHN E D P EARCE
    in Louisville
Courier-Journal Magazine
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    The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day.
    â€” P ERSIAN PROVERB
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    The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
    â€” G . K . C HESTERTON
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    One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
    â€” M ARGARET M EAD
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    The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
    â€” C ONFUCIUS
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    Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
    â€” O LIVER W ENDELL H OLMES S R.
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    Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
    â€” V ERNON G . B AKER
    in
Courant
(Hartford, Connecticut)
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    My home is here. I feel just as at home overseas, but I think my roots are here and my language is here and my rage is here and my hope is here. You know where your home is because you’ve been there long enough. You know all the peculiarities of the people around you, because you are one of them. And naturally, memories are the most important. Your home is where your favorite memories are.
    â€” P IETER- D IRK U YS
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    A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse . . . and dreams of home.
    â€” C ARL B URNS
    The Drug Shop
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    When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
    â€” S AM E WING
    in
National Enquirer
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    The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
    â€” C HARLES K URALT
    North Carolina Is My Home
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    A small town is a place where there is little to see or do, but what you hear makes up for it.
    â€” I VERN B ALL
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    A small town is a place where everyone knows whose check is good and whose husband is not.
    â€” S ID A SCHER
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    A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.
    â€” Quoted by S