Best Recollection Quotes
201 Recollection quotes by 166 unique authors
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson
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When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
— Ovid
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That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.
— Ovid
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
— Elie Wiesel
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How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that…
— Jackie Kay
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;…
— Louis Kronenberger
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If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.
— Christopher Fry
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I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.
— Jonathan Winters
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
— Victor Hugo
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No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
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Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind...
— Walter Russell
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
— Jean Paul
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I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned…
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Unknown Author
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May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from…
— Al-Ghazali
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what…
— Federico Fellini
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Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
— George Washington
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their…
— John Ruskin
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
— Clifton Fadiman
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Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
— James E. Talmage
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