Quotes About Recollections

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

it's the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions and last the longest.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

Navidad. No le gustaba la Navidad. Se despertaban en él demasiados recuerdos y demasiadas sensaciones que no podía controlar.

Y yo empecé a encapsular mis recuerdos y a almacenarlos en esa biblioteca de añoranzas que a veces es nuestra mente.

Vivid memories only exist to influence future events

I did more sessions than I remember doing. There were a lot of things in the Seventies that I played on that people keep reminding me about.

When my time comes, I will seek hope in the knowledge that insofar as possible I will not be allowed to suffer or be subjected to needless attempts to maintain life; I will seek it in the certainty that I will not be abandoned to die alone; I am seeking it now, in the way I try to live my life, so that those who value what I am will have profited by my time on earth and be left with comforting recollections of what we have meant to one another.

Las Vegas might be easier to take if I understood it not as a city but as a dream the desert is dreaming about itself. I found the thought reassuring even if it means, as it must, that I am a part of the dream too, and it will soon transmute into another dream, as dreams always do, and then disappear and fade quickly from the recollections of the dreamer, whoever that may be.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

En definitiva -así lo creo-, lo único que puedo verter en este receptáculo imperfecto que es un texto son recuerdos imperfectos, pensamientos imperfectos. (Tokio Blues. Norwegian wood - Traducción del japonés por Lourdes Porta)

Lumea nu este decat o lupta nesfarsita intre amintirile unor tabere opuse.

Those are her memories but she has lent them to me.

I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

Your explanation brought up a host of dim recollections, which affected me as a song of his childhood affects a man on his deathbed when hear from the lips of another.

Everybody had within himself a secret room, it seemed to him, where memories and recollections were all jumbled up together.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

There are so many people that, as I go across the country, say, 'I was a student and I used to come see you.'