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“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
― Andy Bernard

“Good old days? Whatever good in them may have been, they’re long past. No use crying over them now when they are but distant memories. I shall tell you the trick �� in a person’s mind, all distant memories eventually grow tinted with rays of sunshine, and the toils and hardships the flesh and the soul have undergone get lost and forgotten. Hence you begin believing that those old days were good, and have a hard time dealing with present difficulties�� I believe, whatever hardship you may face at present, it is still better than some vague and blurry flashbacks you carry in your mind, for the present can be felt upon the touch, sensed upon the breath, lived through and fought for. Good old days are long gone, and if you ask me, have never been as good as you may now imagine. There is only now, and the bitterer it is, the sweeter it feels to live the moment to its fullest.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.�� And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.”
― Erich Kästner

“God,�� said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen

“We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calendar

“We stepped a little quicker, laughed a little louder and chatted over the fences a little longer. We gathered bouquets of wildflowers, dined on fresh strawberries and began to ride our bikes up and down the Third Line again. We ran up grassy hills and rolled back down through the young clover, feeling light and giddy, free from our heavy boots and coats. There were trilliums to pick for Mother and tadpoles to catch and keep in a jar. Spring had come at last to Bathurst Township and was she ever worth the wait!”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calendar

“Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was irretrievably gone. The past century has made enormous progress in all fields. The standard of living, work environment, health care quality and mobility, and the availability of cultural programs, recreational activities and information �� all that clearly speaks in favor of nowadays.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Try to imagine its good old days whenever you see a ruin and try to do the same whenever you see an old person!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“On harsh, frigid January days, when the winds are relentless and the snow piles up around us, I often think of our small feathered friends back on the Third Line. I wonder if the old feeder is still standing in the orchard and if anyone thinks to put out a few crumbs and some bacon drippings for our beautiful, hungry, winter birds. In the stark, white landscape they provided a welcome splash of colour and their songs gave us hope through the long, silent winter.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calendar

“Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Chronicle

“Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Can you imagine having to grow up with Instagram and Twitter? Every single thing that happens is potentially filmed and put online. It's bad. In the good old days, you could split your pants getting off the bus and not have to worry about your crush in the line ahead of you watch the aftermath unfold on YouTube. Not today.”
― Benjamin Conlon

“In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

“I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).”
― Ron Brackin

“Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion?
Mr. Palmer: I'm sorry, we do not.
Jake Gittes: Don't apologize - neither does Dad.”
― Robert Towne, Chinatown

“He wished he were back in Puerto Rico, where life was simpler for him. Ah, those were the good old days.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them.
That kind of stuff is dead now and I think it's about time.”
― Norman Rockwell, in the late 1960s

“They were days when saying 'I don't know" used to be shameful and dumb, how I miss those days that are replaced by glorification and honoring ignorance and mental laziness.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“It can be a blast when good people and good laughs teleport you back to the way it once was. But you poison yourself with the past when you constantly stab and inject yourself with vain memories that rubberband you back to the way it used to be! Your task of escape is to bring all the past dope shit into your present moment and let it guide the new path you will take, to the future that YOU choose to deliberately create!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit. That the imagination of man is capable of creating the myth of a more open, more generous time is not a sign of our folly.”
― Orson Welles

“Among all Crafts this [i.e. clothing manufacture] was the onely chiefe, for that it was the greatest merchandize, by the which our Countrey became famous through all Nations. And it was verily thought, that the one halfe of the people in the land liued in those daies therby, and in such good sort, that in the Common-wealth there were few or no beggers at all : poore people, whom God lightly blesseth with most children, did by meanes of this occupation so order them, that by the time that they were come to be sixe or seuen yeares of 20 age, they were able to get their owne bread : Idlenesse was then banished our coast, so that it was a rare thing to heare of a thiefe in those daies”
― Thomas Deloney, His Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading And Three Ballads On The Spanish Armada

“Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit.”
― Orson Welles, This Is Orson Welles

“The hope that good old days will come back never goes away.
They come back sometimes �� but then we are so focused on good old days that we fail to recognise good present days.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind