Quotes about Recollection

By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

If you love the truth, you can remember it.

Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.

I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember. Other things were more important.

Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Where do the words go when we have said them?