Best Recollection Words
201 Recollection quotes by 166 unique authors
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone,…
— Tennessee Williams
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As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
— Rashida Jones
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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer…
— Peter Higgs
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Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and…
— Chris Ware
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Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From my earliest years…
— John George Haigh
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They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this…
— Fritz Kreisler
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He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in…
— John Banville
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Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
— Robert Breault
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My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,…
— Mary McCarthy
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I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music…
— Dweezil Zappa
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I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
— David Blunkett
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How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,…
— Samuel Woodworth
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I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation…
— Jonathan Hull
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
— Lord Byron
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There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a…
— Washington Irving
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One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature…
— Edgar Degas
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
— Madame de Stael
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My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe,…
— Arshile Gorky
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Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are…
— Brigham Young
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back…
— Bayard Taylor
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