Recollection Quotes
201 quotes by 172 authors
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
— Brooks Atkinson
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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere…
— William Bartram
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
— Joe Biden
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
— Ilka Chase
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I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
— Flann O'Brien
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have…
— Adolf Hitler
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
— Joan Didion
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed…
— Seneca the Younger
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
— Samuel Johnson
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A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
— Horace
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
— Alexander Smith
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
— George Bernard Shaw
Who Wrote These Recollection Quotes
172 authors contributed a total of 201 Recollection Quotes, led by these top contributors: