Best Recollections Quotes

48 Recollections quotes by 42 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea… — Alexandre Dumas
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always… — Orhan Pamuk
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't… — Jorge Amado
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once,… — Augustus Hare
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every… — Thomas Jefferson
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated… — Jacob Epstein
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. — Charles Dickens
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of… — Paul Gauguin
Those ancient buried recollections, We transform them and select them, You have yours, I have mine That's fine, While we're too torn to heal, Our… — Unknown Author
'Although I am no longer by your side, there is no need to weep, I left sweet recollections that you will keep Eternal joy and… — Andrew Guzaldo

Who Wrote These Recollections Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 48 Recollections Quotes, led by these top contributors: