Quotes of Recollection - somelinesforyou

“ My first recollection is that of a bugle call. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not the great occasions — that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ”

- Bob Hope

“ We must always have old memories and young hopes. ”

- Arsene Houssaye

“ Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. ”

- Alan Bennett

“ That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Memories are all we really own. ”

- Elias Lieberman

“ Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. ”

- Robert Brault

“ He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land without memories is a land without history. ”

- Abram Joseph Ryan

“ Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ”

- Chief Seattle

“ So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ”

- Unknown

“ So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ”

- Unknown

“ Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ”

- J.M. Barrie

“ Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Even being remembered in history books keeps one's memory alive only for a while-if not in the memories of the masses, at least in the minds of scholars,". ”

- Jack Nichols

“ The past is one evil less and one memory more. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. ”

- Robert Brault

“ I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ”

- David Gerrold

“ I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax. ”

- Eddie Murphy

“ If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and — I can't remember what the third thing is. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ Evil is obvious only in retrospect. ”

- Gloria Steinem
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