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Quotes About Recollection

Preserving the memories so others will remember... â"¢
~ John Michael
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
~ John Piper
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.
~ John Quincy Adams
Memory is too unreliable to be 'truthful'.
~ John Rechy
Reminders are for those who cannot remember. Memories are for those who want to remember.
~ John Shors
This had happened before. She had remembered, only to see it all slip away. She had been insane, many times.
~ John Varley
Think back, pilgrim… Remember?
~ John Wayne
would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her infancy;
~ John William Polidori
Though he remembered the authors and their works and their dates and
~ John Williams
Do you recall a shepherd's crook, Laurence? And Gladstone-bag? We may be Liberals, but I didn't know we had a Gladstone-bag.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Sometimes my lack of memory (or, to put a positive spin on it, my surplus of forgetfulness) worries me, especially since it's not limited to my early childhood.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.
~ Ellen Potter
I'll give you something to remember ME by... The back of my head!
~ Ellen Schreiber
History is what we choose to remember.
~ elliot jaspin
Thanks for . . . what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot.
~ Ellyn Bache
Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.
~ Emil Cioran
Oamenii la care ne gîndim dintr-o dat?, f?r? motiv aparent, sînt cei care ne-au flatat ori ne-au umilit într-un moment sau altul al existenÅ£ei noastre. Sînt singurii de care ne amintim dup? ani, chiar ÅŸi atunci cînd au disp?rut de tot din orizontul nostru.
~ Emil Cioran
De câte ori lunec?m pe panta amintirilor, de atâtea ori suferim din cauza vieÈ›ii.
~ Emil Cioran
Numai uitând tot ne putem aminti cu adev?rat. Sl?birea memoriei ne descoper? toat? lumea care a precedat timpul
~ Emil Cioran
I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory.
~ Emily Barr
Pain—has an Element of Blank—It cannot recollectWhen it begun—or if there wereA time when it was not—
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.
~ Emily Giffin
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.
~ Emily Giffin