Recall Quotes

533 Recall quotes by 456 unique authors

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. — Daniel Quinn
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture… — Kenneth Grahame
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything… — Alice Walker
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag. — Mae West
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any… — Mahatma Gandhi
There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these… — John Lennon
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. — Rachel Carson
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass. — John Christopher
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole… — Anne Frank
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no… — Jane Yolen
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell
FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings… — Jerry Spinelli
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… — Hermann Hesse
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she… — Toni Morrison
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did… — Victor Hugo
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… — Iain Banks
They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they… — Lord Byron
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… — Roland Barthes

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