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201 Recollection quotes by 166 unique authors

Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he… — Alexandre Dumas
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my… — Thomas Jefferson
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
Women and elephants never forget. — Dorothy Parker
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,… — Charles Dickens
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret. — Jane Austen
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones — Cassandra Clare
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will,… — Cassandra Clare
Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he… — Janet Evanovich
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh… — Sylvia Plath
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying… — Cassandra Clare
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding… — Jodi Picoult
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and… — Peter Watts
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss."… — Simone Elkeles

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