28 Recollection Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Wisdom Future Wise Responsibility Made Past Our Recollection

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

Blessing Age Old Old Age Harvest Secured Recollection Abundance

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 Art Great Man Woman Memory Every Great Artist Recollection Record Makes His Artist Unfaithful Her Every Man

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

Memory Complicated Problems Further Recollection Vivid Fact However Very Any Done While Actually Things Loads

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

Paradise We Cannot Out Recollection Only Cannot Which Turned

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. William Godwin

Man Busy Recollection Must Would Spirit Generous Contemplation Sort Vulgar Occupation Always Inevitably Woe Repose Hold Intercourse Turmoil Engagements Gross Hard Who Whom Seasons Desire

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Character Experience Recollection Memoir About Emotion Particular Non-Fiction Personal Personal Experience Often Fiction Literary Story Much

I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show. Chris Squire

Beatles Every Think Our Recollection Know Cover Did Just Little Show Little Thing Rehearsal Ever Actually Thing Vague

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

Work Recollection Eat Main Had Order

When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton's big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you'd still be off - by more than 30 years. Daniel Levitin

You Guitar Thought Big Band Recollection Muster Invented More Date Wrong Suppose Big Band Still Years Hearing Hampton Off Lionel Than Decade Electric Electric Guitar

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

Events Recollection About Always Been Honest

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 Thought Rest Imagination Other Recollection Detail Some Some Things Liked Until Instrumentation Always Arrangements Hear Heard Hearing Than Same Any Really Working Dad Amount Things

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. Herbert Hoover

Family Uncle Farm Living Dreadful Recollection Hopes Some Vivid Purpose Could Bought Mortgage Major Know Spot Did Produce Youthful Lived Whom Right Things

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 Mind Will Poet Important Own Think Two-Way Two-Way Street Add Recollection Poem Poetry He Read Reader Course Readings His Very Any Street Things Suggest Suggested

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 Law School Recollection Law School Go Any Confirm Paying Recall

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

Death Fall Recollection Disturb Sorrow Him His Holy Fills Present

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. Julie Payette

Time Mom Remember Walk Old Moon Parents Later Recollection Eastern Exactly Missions Because Said Years Five Any Just Happened To The Moon Landing Apollo Asked Asleep Actually Night

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. Orson Welles

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. Peter Higgs

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. Publilius Syrus

Anger Recollection Bare

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

Me Parents Giving Advice Recollection About Part Them Hollywood Much

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

Life Think Recollection Absolutely Like Normal Normal Life Even Vague

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