Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death. — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere… — Teddy Pendergrass 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
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
“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
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear… — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the… — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow,… — Samuel Woodworth Copy Share Image
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong,… — William James Copy Share Image
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. — Martial Copy Share Image
“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.” — michael bassey johnson Copy Share Image
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image