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

Cicero

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

The ridiculousness of this whole thing is that when these songs came out, Michael Jackson was nine years old and for him to have a recollection of what was going on 30 years ago, it's absurd.

Robert Meyer

He has no recollection of the events and says now that he had no intent to do anything like that.

James Longwell

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Judy Carter

I don't have any recollection of making that statement. Any person who has contact with a murder victim is a potential suspect.

Philip Vannatter

He has no recollection of ever being a member.

Dana Perino

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

Mr. Libby testified to the best of his honest recollection on all occasions.

Joseph Tate

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.

William Manchester

The fact it held up during the hurricanes is amazing. I don't think it compromises the safety of the public. The structural engineers, from my recollection, did not tell us we need to abandon the building.

Ric Holt

My recollection was that he was going to make an announcement later that day.

Russ Pry

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember.

James R. Hoffa (jimmy)

I don't have a specific recollection of making that statement; I don't believe I did make that statement.

Philip Vannatter

Without explanation ... you said you believed her and raised questions about my `trust and credibility.' That is your right. But I gave my recollection to the grand jury under oath.

Jill Abramson

He made the statement when the pictures were taken here that his son said he was 110, but he kind of corrected and said, by my recollection, i'm a couple of years older than a 110 so that would have made him 112 back in 2001.

Gloria Williams

She had no clear recollection exactly why she woke up.

Glenn White

My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925.

Wellington Mara

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Robert Blake

I think his prairie paintings are his finest work. He put everything he had into them. It was a kind of recollection of his youth, painting very directly and powerfully.

Walt Reed

May I finish my answer, please? ... Again, any person that has personal contact with a murder victim is a potential suspect until they are eliminated, until the investigation is completed. He may have taken something out of context. I have no recollection of making that statement.

Philip Vannatter

I have no recollection of the mirror thing. The thing I remember most was her sticking her head out the doorway, and she had this huge smile. That was it. I knew that she was going to be the one.

Shawn Varney

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

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Edna O'brien