Recapture Quotes

60 quotes by 54 authors

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. — Tim Burton
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose… — Frederick Lenz
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. — William J. Clinton
Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as… — Harold B. Lee
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture… — Jonathan Hale
If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor… — Andrew Cuomo
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. — Wangari Maathai
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. — Henri Matisse
And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for… — Tim Ryan
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world… — Lech Walesa
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture — Norman Mailer
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
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture… — P.D. James
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — E F Schumacher
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that… — Guy Gavriel Kay
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter HÃ¸eg
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his… — Henry Miller

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