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
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“In the last weeks, we’d been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of… — John Green 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
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
“* * *THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION* * * Oh, yes, I definitely remember him The sky was murky and deep like quicksand.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Some things are better than I recall. Some arent as good. But the distortion of memorywillful or otherwiseis a fascinating thing. Recollections… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
“He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon… — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a “mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
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I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Smooth to the touch, My memories of you; I've handled them so much No facet can feel new. Yet every recollection Holds… — The Clam Lake Papers 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
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
“Not an attrition of memory, but great locked rooms in the mansion of his recollection. Not forgotten, any more than a locked… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
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