Quotes About Recollection

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

People who keep journals have life twice

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Life is what you remember.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that