The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 1
I have always been honest about my recollection of events. David Blunkett British Politician More David Blunkett Quotes 0
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes 0
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. Asa Gray American Scientist More Asa Gray Quotes 0
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Jack Kerouac American Novelist More Jack Kerouac Quotes 0
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. James Laughlin American Poet More James Laughlin Quotes 0
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Andre Maurois French Writer More Andre Maurois Quotes 0
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese Italian Poet More Cesare Pavese Quotes 0
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul German Author More Jean Paul Quotes 0
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 0
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist More George Bernard Shaw Quotes 0
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. John Philip Sousa American Musician More John Philip Sousa Quotes 0
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. Stendhal French Writer More Stendhal Quotes 0
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. John Strachan Canadian Clergyman More John Strachan Quotes 0
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. Publilius Syrus Roman Writer More Publilius Syrus Quotes 0
For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality. Douglas Hyde More Douglas Hyde Quotes 0
She can refresh his recollection with a piece of green cheese, if that will help. Eugene H. Nickerson More Eugene H. Nickerson Quotes 0
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious. Harriet Ziefert More Harriet Ziefert Quotes 0
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember. James R. Hoffa (Jimmy) American More James R. Hoffa (Jimmy) Quotes 0
He has no recollection of the events and says now that he had no intent to do anything like that. James Longwell More James Longwell Quotes 0
As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred. Joseph Tate More Joseph Tate Quotes 0
Mr. Libby testified to the best of his honest recollection on all occasions. Joseph Tate More Joseph Tate Quotes 0
My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president. Judy Carter American Actress More Judy Carter Quotes 0
I have no recollection of that but I am happy to search my recollection ... I would have to search my recollection ... I cannot recall off the top of my head ... I would have to conduct an interview with my agents ... I would frankly have to search my recollections. Ken Starr More Ken Starr Quotes 0