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201 Recollection quotes by 166 unique authors

The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it… — John Quincy Adams
We have all forgot more than we remember. — Thomas Fuller
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real,… — Salvador Dali
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. — Washington Irving
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my… — Jesse Jackson
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. — Jack Kerouac
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles… — Samuel Lover
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art… — Andre Maurois
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense… — Mike Myers
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at… — Cesare Pavese
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. — Will Rogers
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be… — John Philip Sousa
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in… — Stendhal
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. — Robert Louis Stevenson
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he… — Barbra Streisand
Observation is an old man's memory. — Jonathan Swift
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and… — Orson Welles
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
In memory everything seems to happen to music. — Tennessee Williams
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went… — Jane Austen
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have… — Monique Wittig
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov

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