77 Movie Quotes about Nostalgia (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

Memorable quotes about nostalgia, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Roaming the streets and shores of my young manhood... Soaking myself in nostalgia. -I know. I can smell it!

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard; Dean Jones as Steve Walker in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

2 Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve.

Quote from Mary Poppins

3 Why so melancholy? A wondrous future lies before you.

Quote from Sleeping Beauty (1959)

4 I married the wrong woman, and now I lead a life of regret.

Seth MacFarlane as Ted; Ted Bear in Ted (2012)

5 And here's a name for you nostalgia fans.

Quote from Slap Shot (1977)

6 Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time.

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

7 Once we watched a lazy world go by. Now the days seem to fly. (2)

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

8 Ah, Georges. We're just a pair of sentimental old fools.

Quote from The Aristocats

9 Will it make me forget? -No. But it will make you not mind remembering.

Quote from Flash Gordon (1980)

10 It was real, wasn't it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn't we?

Rachel McAdams as "Allie" Hamilton; Allie Hamilton in The Notebook (2004)