“Sometimes I cannot tell who wrote what. That is upsetting. With some sections, I can remember the place and time I wrote… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In my recollection, there have been many places and people I have been both blessed and cursed to know. Much joy and… — Wynter Wilkins Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The light-minded and coarse of soul enjoy nothing spiritually. Even pious souls that lack recollection will never experience spiritual joys. Frivolity of… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“As much recollection power one has, that much dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) prevails. Our people do not have recollection power at… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“There are years and years of my life I can’t remember a thing about. A family member will say, “Remember the time… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“For those who write memoirs, memory is not a mere recollection of facts; it is a ragbag we pick through, salvaging scraps… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
![“Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers...we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that…” quote by Norman Lear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e3/norman-lear-7597_astaire_bud-yorkin-broke-out-big-when-he-did-the_1512304.jpg)
![“There are years and years of my life I can’t remember a thing about. A family member will say, “Remember the time [insert significant family moment],” and I stare blankly, with no recollection of these moments whatsoever. We have a shared history and yet we do not.” quote by Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/roxane-gay-520_family_there-are-years-and-years-of-my-life-i-c_239019.png)
![“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure, undiluted feeling, as if you were living…” quote by Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/428/laini-taylor-258_recollection_she-had-heard-it-said-that-there-was-onl_2615203.jpg)
