History Quotes / NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe

The king was doing his thing and making all the ladies swoon and\\

-->-- '''Nicole Watterson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', "The Parents"

->''"I never watched Pokémon, and I'm glad I never did. We had good shows in our days, like the one about the mutant reptiles who ate pizza and practiced ninjitsu... or the one about the three chipmunks who got together and formed their own rock band... or the one about the bears who made people feel better by shooting hearts out of their stomachs... THOSE WERE THE DAYS!"''

-->-- '''Unknown / Disputed''', frequently attributed to '''[[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Slick Grace Slick]]''', '''[[Music/JeffersonAirplane Paul Kantner]]''', '''Creator/DennisHopper''', '''Music/GeorgeHarrison''', '''Creator/RobinWilliams''' and '''Judy Collins''', among others.

-->--''Web/VideoTheNostalgiaCritic''

-->--'''The Nostalgia Critic'''

->''Can you remember the days when life was a cabaret?''\\
''The water, it was wetter''\\
''The food, it tasted better''\\
''And everything was cheaper''\\
''And people all believe in something rather than nothing''\\
''And your neighbours were so trusting''\\
''The music had more tune and''\\
''Men landed on the moon and''\\
''The king was doing his thing and making all the ladies swoon and''\\
''Music/TheBeatles sang together''\\
''We had such lovely weather''\\
''I wasn't born but it's so easy to remember''

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Ecclesiastes 7:10''

-->-- '''Andrew''' of "[[http://mindlessones.com/ The Mindless Ones]]", reviewing ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: [[http://mindlessones.com/2011/08/07/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-century-1969-the-annocommentations-part-iii/ Century 1969]]'' and disputing the above.

-->-- '''The Abbot''', ''Discworld/SmallGods''

->-- '''Infusion''', ''Memory Cheats''

->-- '''Tisa Bryant''', ''Unexplained Presence'', on Patrica Rozema's film of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''

-->-- '''Andrew''' of "[[http://mindlessones.com/ The Mindless Ones]]", reviewing ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: [[http://mindlessones.com/2011/08/07/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-century-1969-the-annocommentations-part-iii/ Century 1969]]'' and disputing the above.

->''Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.''

->''Things were always better than they are now. It's in the nature of things.''

->''If you can remember TheSixties, you weren't really there.''
-->-- '''Unknown / Disputed''', frequently attributed to '''[[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Slick Grace Slick]]''', '''[[JeffersonAirplane Paul Kantner]]''', '''Dennis Hopper''', '''GeorgeHarrison''', '''RobinWilliams''' and '''Judy Collins''', among others.

->'''If you can remember the 1960s, you were there but had to work in a factory or as a postman or something because your daddy didn’t own Kent.''

-> ''Can you remember the days when life was a cabaret?''\\
''The water - it was wetter''\\
''The food - it tasted better''\\

''The Beatles sang together''\\

->''History dull? Invention? Don't disturb this groove. The charm, the romance. It's all in the (un)making! Don't think of how infrequently they bathed. Don't grapple, viewer, with any difficulty with the marriage scheme. That Edmund, the soulmate (and first cousin!) of miss peaches and cream might instigate scenes of subjection elsewhere, even upon his own children from his black mistress. O, speak obliquely, if at all, of History and its slaves . . . This is romance. Back to the time when we had it made. Who's, whose, we? Hush now. Don't explain.''

->''The past is not what it was.''

->''I sent Uncle Mac's thumb buster and badge over to the Rangers, put it in their museum. Your daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward? Gunned down on his own porch over in Hudspeth County. Seven or eight of them come up there, all wanting this, wanting that. Uncle Mac went back in the house to get the shotgun, well...they was ahead of him. Shot him in his doorway. Aunt Ella come out, tried to stop the bleeding. Uncle Mac all the while trying to get that shotgun. They just sat there on their horses, watching him die. After a while one of them said something in Indian and they turned, left out. Uncle Mac knew the score, even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung. And that was that, as they say.\\
What you got ain't nothing new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.''

-> ''Can you remember the days when life was a cabaret?''
->''The water - it was wetter''
->''The food - it tasted better''
->''And everything was cheaper''
->''And people all believe in something rather than nothing''
->''And your neighbours were so trusting''
->''The music had more tune and''
->''Men landed on the moon and''
->''The king was doing his thing and making all the ladies swoon and''
->''The Beatles sang together''
->''We had such lovely weather''
->''I wasn't born but it's so easy to remember''

->-- '''Tisa Bryant''', ''Unexplained Presence'', on Patrica Rozema's film of ''MansfieldPark''

->"''Things were always better than they are now. It's in the nature of things.''"

->''"If you can remember TheSixties, you weren't really there."''

->'''"If you can remember the 1960s, you were there but had to work in a factory or as a postman or something because your daddy didn’t own Kent."''
-->--'''Andrew''' of "[[http://mindlessones.com/ The Mindless Ones]]", reviewing ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: [[http://mindlessones.com/2011/08/07/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-century-1969-the-annocommentations-part-iii/ Century 1969]]'' and disputing the above.

->--'''Tisa Bryant''', ''Unexplained Presence'', on Patrica Rozema's film of ''MansfieldPark''

->''"The past is not what it was."''