Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs. . . have usurped a large part of the soil.
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives. '