Quotes About Recollections

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

Eventually he began to consider that the ordering of his recollections was in fact not the most important thing; what was important was the final memory, the one he deliberately kept 'til last, the one that would be nearest to salvation, the one that blazed with light.

Preserve your memories; keep them well, what you forget you can never tell.

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

continua a surpreender-me o número de recordações que se podem pendurar lado a lado no fio de uma lágrima)" - pg 130/616

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless mutterings of old women.

Voltei-me; era um antigo companheiro, oficial de marinha, jovial, um pouco despejado de maneiras. Ele sorriu maliciosamente, e disse-me: - Seu maganão! Recordações do passado, hem? - Viva o passado!

No Memory happens in the past. To say this in so many words is, no doubt, to state the obvious - our memories happen now, in the madeleine- and tisane-tinctured present - but it strikes me as peculiar, still, that my recollections have so little to do with historical time.

List the major events you remember from childhood and adolescence, the memories that shaped who you are.

Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she'd take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

amanda lifted a large handful of pictures out of the box and dropped them into her lap, flicking through them as they fall. they told a thousand stories, didn't they? the pictures of your life. but they left a lot out, too.

his lips were curled with that incipient smile which is apt to accompany agreeable recollections.

To them pain and mishap present a far wider range of possibilities than gladness and enjoyment: their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear.

But she…I…" The emptiness of his thefted recollections was real as any love loss. The rifled wallet seemed trivial. Tears banked his eyes. "But she was—" Confusion snarled the sentence's end. "What was she, friend?" Calli asked. "She…was." That was the sad entirety.

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

Various sources force us to assume that the so-called earliest childhood recollections are not true memory traces but later elaborations of the same, elaborations which might have been subjected to the influences of many later psychic forces. Thus, the childhood reminiscences of individuals altogether advance to the signification of concealing memories, and thereby form a noteworthy analogy to the childhood reminiscences as laid down in the legends and myths of nations.

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.