Quotes About Recollection

Does anyone remember laughter?

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

ABBA songs are so anthemic, and so ingrained in your system, that you can't really remember when you heard them.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

What is memory? To remember is an effort and to forget, effortless. And some memories get etched so deep in our system that they are remembered effortlessly.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

I've had a lot of good nights, and ideally, I don't want to be remembered for a bad night.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.