Quotes about Recollection
Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.
— Margaret Atwood
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
— Milan Kundera
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
— John F. Kennedy
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
— Samuel Johnson
Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.
— Edith Wharton
The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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 bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus
During this period, so many important events have occurred, and such changes in men and things have taken place, as the compass of a letter would give you but an inadequate idea of. None of which events, however, nor all of them together, have been able to eradicate from my mind, the recollection of those happy moments—the happiest of my life—which I have enjoyed in your company.
— George Washington
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
— Mark Twain
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
— Mark Twain