Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker describes a simple nostalgic scenario of youthful romance and social roles.
In plain terms
Let us play the parts of a young couple at school.
What can you take from it?
Nostalgia often simplifies past relationships.

Where it applies

  • remembering school days
  • romantic fantasy
  • simplifying the past

Putting it to work

  • write a story
  • revisit old memories
  • plan a date

Questions to consider

  • What roles did you play growing up?
  • How do you remember your youth?

Another view

It reduces complex relationships to stereotypes.

More from Tom Petty

  1. It's time to move on, time to get going, What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing, But under my feet, baby, grass is growing, It's time to move on, it's, time…

    Permalink to quote #57
  2. It's good to be king, if just for a while. To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile.

    Permalink to quote #59
  3. So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint. And let's head on down the road. There's somewhere I got to go. And you don't know how it feels, no, you d…

    Permalink to quote #56

Related quotes

  1. O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of…

    Friedrich von SchillerFriedrich von Schiller quote #14
  2. So hard to find my way, Now that I'm all on my own. I saw you just the other day, My how you have grown, Cast my memory back there, Lord Sometimes I'm overcome…

    Van MorrisonVan Morrison quote #16
  3. 'Susan, I saw you in the classroom today, as the sun came from behind the clouds, a burst of brilliant light caught your hair, it was haloed in front of me. Yo…

    Eddie IzzardEddie Izzard quote #43