My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
“He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“If memorable settings do not ring any bells anymore in the twisting lobes of our memory or do not raise a single… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'.… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
“Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers,… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
The earliest recollection I have of being in the kitchen and cooking was in the third grade, and we lived in Germany.… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
“He was beginning to feel his head swim a bit. It all came to this, a glance, a word, a face …… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I don’t remember nineteen,” Will said. “Or twenty, come to that. I have a very vague recollection of twenty-one—” He laughed. “But… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our… — Claire North Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
![“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/07a/cormac-mccarthy-181_encouragement_and-after-and-for-a-long-time-to-come-he_1311728.jpg)
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