Famous quotes containing the word recollection:
“When I think of my own native land,
In a moment I seem to be there;
But alas! recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“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 [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“The business eternally passing thro’ my mind and occupying it exclusively, wipes out at once the recollection of things which have been presented to it but once, and on which it has had no occasion to recur.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)