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“I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.”

People Long Book Novel Serious Literacy Old Days Good Old Days Moaning

Author:Robert Hass

“Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.”

Believe Ideas Different Matter Literature Convinced Russia Old Days Improbable Good Old Days Different Ideas

Author:Robert Hass

“We over-exaggerate yesterday. We either think it was better or worse than it was - you know, the good old days. We over-estimate tomorrow; we think we can do more than we can - always. And that's why we put off everything till tomorrow.”

Thinking Knows Can Do Tomorrow Yesterday Old Days Good Old Days

Author:John C. Maxwell

“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.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Want America Political Talking Right Now Crisis Nostalgia Britain Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote?" There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“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.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“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.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“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?”

Ifs Years Looks Jobs President Barack President Obama Jimmy Carter Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Paul Ryan

“I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

People Want Care Turns Politics Clock Village Simple Life Caring For Others Folk Music Good Old Days Small Villages

Author:Pete Seeger

“In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.”

Men My Own Senators Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Joe Biden

“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.”

Trying Children Shows Used Games Parent Sides Watches Football Phones Painful Cells Cell Phone Old Days Nostalgic Showing Off Handy Football Game Good Old Days Blackberries

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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.”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.”

“The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

Source: True Believer

“I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)”

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Book:Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all”

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

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Author:Jim Carrey

“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”

War Wow Looking Back Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Rick Riordan

“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.”

Religion Names Church Sleep Sin Gone Trouble Crime Building Entrepreneur Block Publishers Murderer Alas Wipe Old Days Stains Lecturer Humorists Good Old Days Mortar

Author:Mark Twain

“Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.”

Looks Focus Heartbroken New Day Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Joel Osteen

“The good old days are now.”

Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Tom Clancy

“Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems”

Inspirational Seems Tomorrow Goodbye Saying Goodbye Old Days Good Old Days Adieu Oldies

Author:Billy Joel

“When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.”

Thinking Liberty Libertarian One Word Old Days Good Old Days Dentistry

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.”

Ideas Gone Forever Honest Owners Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Paulo Coelho

“They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.”

“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.”

Knows Way Left Wish Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Ed Helms

“The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.”

Stills Havens Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Luther Vandross

“I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'”

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Book:If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“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.”

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Author:Jacky Ickx

“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.”

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Author:Steffi Graf

“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.”

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Author:Ernesto Sabato

“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.”

Thinking Remember White Folks Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Tim Wise

“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.”

People Giving Today Hero Give Me Excuse Villain Old Days Credulity Slick Good Old Days New Words Bravo Heroes And Villains

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.”

Bigs Life Is Challenges Talking Events Exercise Sitting Tough Train Fats Athletic Battlefields Old Days Sitting Around Good Old Days Life Is Tough Tough Life

Author:Jack LaLanne

“The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.”

Way Lasts Week Rising Old Days Good Old Days

Book:Les Dawson's Joke Book

Source: Les Dawson's Joke Book

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

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Author:Kabir Bedi

“In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.”

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Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.”

Want Hell Forever Feet Sake Nostalgia Our Time Nostalgic Good Old Days

Author:Alice Childress

“I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.”

World White Party Behinds Nostalgia Academic Athletic Suspicious Scholarship Old Days Protestants Cocktails Good Old Days Cocktail Parties Anglo Saxon Athletic Scholarships

Author:Scott MacDonald

“The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

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

Knows Suffering Happened Rounds Dirty Nasty Old Days Attics Good Old Days Tuberculosis

Author:Arnold Wesker

“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?”

Trying Winning Chance Happened Sitting Passive Old Days Good Old Days Parasols

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.”

Helping Heard Judging Months Interviews Tanks Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Joseph Force Crater

“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.”

Believe Stills Today Song Tomorrow Believe In Me New Day Old Days Good Old Days Better Days Greatest Song

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.”

Inspirational Good Day Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Alice Childress

“I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.”

Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

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