Quotes About Recollection

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

People are so over what they did yesterday, they don't even sit and discuss what made it a great time. They'd have to be reminded by their Instagram, after 52 weeks, and it's like 'Oh, I remember that now.'

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Memories that you remember are Truth of your life .....

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.