#recollection

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school. ↗

— Joe Biden

#confirm #go #i #law #law school

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#amazement #recollection #write #yourself

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

#better #future #had #hope #lost

It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. ↗

— Nanci Kincaid

#happy #heart #masterpieces #memory #private-gallery

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#nostalgia #recollection #past

I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ↗

— David Blunkett

#always #been #events #honest #i

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#austrian #confused #during #duty #find

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#comes #i #i am #i can #recollection

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

#child #children #imagination #imaginative #into