77 Movie Quotes about Nostalgia (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 Oh, God. -What's wrong, Tai'? -They're playing our song. You know, the one that Elton and I danced to. -Oh! -'Rolling with the homies'...

Brittany Murphy as Tai Frasier in Clueless (1995)

52 I really miss the old days. Those were good times. We had money and women, everything we wanted. We really had a wonderful time. -That's right.

Quote from Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

53 Leave a place when you're a kid, maybe 17, 18 years ago, and you forget all about it. Then, all of a sudden, you're driving along, and smacko, your own hometown up and hits you right in the face.

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

54 As I drank, I thought to myself, it's such a pity that my father isn't alive to be able to see for himself all his dreams come true. The dreams he worked so hard for. His son, a famous man. Married to a beautiful and wealthy woman.

Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

55 Come on, I'll show you what I've done with the rest of the house. -Okay, fine. I haven't been on a rubber-neck tour in years.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

56 And I say how I wish I could turn back the clock, and have the fine future I had once before, and again be an innocent puppy once more.

Henry Gibson as Max in Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977)

57 I'm falling apart and you go down memory lane with your silly jazz!

Herbert Lom as Inspector Charles Dreyfus in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

58 Do you like that show? -I love that show. -That was the old days.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

59 Now, this chance may never come again. As the poet says, how we regret it if we don't get it.

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)

60 That's my favorite drink. -Mine too. It always makes me think of Rome. The way the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors; Andie MacDowell as Rita Hanson in Groundhog Day