Quotes about Recollection
We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.
— Ayn Rand
If you love the truth, you can remember it.
— Brigham Young
Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.
— Max Lucado
I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember. Other things were more important.
— Maya Angelou
Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.
— Teresa of Avila
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.
— Mother Angelica
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
— Cicero
Where do the words go when we have said them?
— Margaret Atwood
It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?
— Margaret Atwood
I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.
— Margaret Atwood