#recollect

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

— David Blunkett

#always #been #events #honest #i

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

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#any #complicated #done #fact #further

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

#anything #childhood #desire #else #ever

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#love #memory #recollection #remembrance #love

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗

— William Faulkner

#memory #recollection #belief

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back. ↗

— Tory Burch

#back #been #born #brings #childhoods

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. ↗

— Plato

#learn #learning #only #process #recollection

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#future #made #our #past #recollection

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

#now #painting #recollected #something #tranquility