Good Old Days Quotes

‘The good old days are now.’ – Tom Clancy

‘Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.’ – Doug Larson

‘Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.’ – Franklin Pierce Adams

‘Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.’ – Joel Osteen

‘The best part is still ahead of me – I haven’t experienced my ‘good old days’ yet.’ – Luther Vandross

‘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

‘The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘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

‘In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.’ – Joe Biden

‘The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.’ – Les Dawson

‘In the good old days when there was no social media and no mobile phones, when you were forced to actually physically meet someone and you often mixed in the same social groups, there was a sense of accountability about things.’ – Ulrika Jonsson

‘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

‘I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘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

‘I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘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

‘It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the ‘good old days’ when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.’ – Sherry Turkle

‘I’m not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.’ – Kabir Bedi

‘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

‘I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don’t look back on the good old days.’ – John Carmack

‘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

‘I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.’ – Chris Lowell

‘No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you’re never going to draw another complacent breath again… or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you’d learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.’ – Anne Lamott

‘One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.’ – Chuck Noll

‘I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.’ – Donald Bren

‘I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.’ – John Muir

‘Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.’ – Don Kardong

‘When I look back at some of the Chicks stuff, it’s the early stuff we did where we kind of giggle and go, ‘You know what? Those were the good old days.” – Martie Maguire

‘When Photoshop came around, I thought I’d died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, ‘Oh, the good old days’ or ‘I’m old school,’ I just want to puke. There’s no tool I won’t use.’ – Marilyn Minter

‘The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’ Fans want the best, wherever they come from.’ – Mario Andretti

‘Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.’ – Rami Malek

‘And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.’ – Jacky Ickx

‘When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?’ – Paul Ryan

‘Orson Welles’s second ‘I-did-it’ should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.’ – Manny Farber

‘In 50 years, I don’t think you’re gonna look back at 2006 and say, ‘The good old days.’ – Brandon Flowers’ – Brandon Flowers

‘Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.’ – Michael Leunig

‘There are things that I am nostalgic about from the ‘good old days.’ I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it’s still warranted, but it’s done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.’ – John Knoll

‘When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, ‘Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?’ Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.’ – Bjarke Ingels

‘Our dad is not one to impart advice or gloat or reminisce about the good old days. But he’s a race car guy, been a car guy forever, and he always wants to talk about cars.’ – Kyle Busch

‘Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren’t quite so good when I started supporting them.’ – Adam Lallana

‘Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren’t defensive ends that were Mario Williams – 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.’ – Carson Palmer