First Recital Quotes

#1. The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#2. If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

Plato

#3. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you." Every hair on my body stands on end,

Gayle Forman

#4. And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

Gayle Forman

#5. It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.

John Le Carre

#7. When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

James Bryce

#8. Because big men do not laugh at big ideas.

David J. Schwartz

#9. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye, and what then? - S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae

Clive Barker

#10. One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

Peg Bracken

#11. One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

Deborah Moggach

#12. In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide . . . and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya!

Stephen King

#13. When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Andrea Thompson

#14. A great teacher is the architect of a great future.

Debasish Mridha