#recollection

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#been #blessed #care #day #given

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

#artist #every #every man #great #her

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#based #change #history #i #little

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#amount #any #arrangements #dad #detail

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

— Plato

#learn #learning #only #process #recollection

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ↗

— Washington Irving

#his #idol #our #out #pushes

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