Recollect Quotes

We thought that if we could build a house with no recollection of the previous one we could live here. We chose to think of it as a journey. - Steve Packer

We must believe that 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not 'recollected' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. - T.S. Eliot

We know we can (do something special). There's no doubt in my mind... We know we could have done it last year, but that was last year and we're not really going to recollect on that. We're ready to show them what we can do this year and not really think about last year. Just perform. - Kenneth Darby

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

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. - Vinoba Bhave

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernard Shaw

We accept the council's recollection that they did not know. They had every right to know. We thought we did let them know and if they say we didn't then we accept that. It was always our intention to tell them. - Don Mohler

Usually, children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly, or cares about it as passionately, as the child who grows up in it. - Carol Williams

To the best of my recollection, there is nothing inconsistent or contradictory in that testimony and what Mr. Clarke has said this week. - Bob Graham