Cheerful Quote by Wilson Flagg

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

— Martial

“efore the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series of books began to appear in 1979, the scientific autobiography was a largely unfamiliar genre. One recalls…

— Anonymous

Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try…

— Aleister Crowley

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as…

— Washington Irving

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms…

— Charles Dickens

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's…

— Tory Burch

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…

— Jodi Picoult

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

— Flann O'Brien

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this…

— Sylvia Plath

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March…

— Norman Mailer

“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell.…

— Alexander Dumas