Top 201 Recollection Quotes & Sayings

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

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

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

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

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

I actually don't remember Apollo 11 exactly because, at the time, I was five years old. The landing happened at night, and the walk on the moon happened at night eastern time, and I asked my parents; my mom said I was probably asleep, and so I just don't have any recollection. I do have recollection of the later missions to the moon.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

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

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

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.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

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

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

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.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

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

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.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

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

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

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

Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

I'm not paying attention to Kevin Durant. I don't have any recollection of watching him play. I can't remember how he shoots free throws.

You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

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

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.