quotes about Recollection
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
-- Agnes Repplier -
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
-- Clifton Fadiman -
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
-- David BlunkettSource : Blunkett's resignation statement, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.
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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 exerts.
-- Edgar Degas -
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
-- Jean Paul -
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.
-- Jonathan Winters -
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Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
-- Josephine HartSource : Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”
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Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
-- Peter L. Berger -
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
-- Plato -
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
-- Pliny the Younger -
Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
-- Tennessee Williams -
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-- Edna O'Brien