Recollection Quotes

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

Future, Wise, Past

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Great, Gratitude, Blessings

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato

Learning, Learn, Process

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, Old, Blessing

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 and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois

Life, Work, Great

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
Douglas MacArthur

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 accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Trust, Nature, Him

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 the future.
Stendhal

Love, Hope, Future

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

Today, Tomorrow, Hero

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 rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

Life, True, Children

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul

Cannot, Paradise, Turned

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac

Yourself, Write, Amazement

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus

Anger, Bare, Kindles

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
Joe Biden

Money, School, Law

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
Rashida Jones

Parents, Giving, Advice

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 showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
Barbra Streisand

Friend, Mean, Together

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 father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
Jesse Jackson

Life, Mother, Father

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 anything else.
John Philip Sousa

Music, Real, Else

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien

Simply, Servant, Summon

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
Alexei Sayle

Done, Problems, Fact

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Heart, After, Learned

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
David Cassidy

Mother, Father, Him

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
David Blunkett

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
Dweezil Zappa

Music, Dad, Thought

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
John Strachan

Death, Him, Holy

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
Clifton Fadiman

Work, Order, Eat

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
Asa Gray

Time, Since, Within

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

Past, Happened, Changing

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
James Laughlin

Good, Poetry, Mind

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.
Hoagy Carmichael

Wanted, Write, Found

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