Quotes About Recitation

#1. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

Pope Pius XII

#3. The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

Regina O'Melveny

#4. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

James Arthur

#6. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Merchant

#8. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

#9. A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

#10. Don't they feed you at Navarre house?"
"They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness.

Chloe Neill

#11. There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Robert Anton Wilson

#13. A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

Kate Morton

#14. The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#15. Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

Columba Marmion

#16. Foul language will earn you a recitation that will grow your vocabulary.

Rachel A. Marks

#17. Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#18. Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.

Elliott Colla

#19. A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#21. You, Celaena Sardothien, are charged with the deaths of the following people ...
And then he began a long recitation of all those lives she'd taken. The brutal story of a girl who was now gone.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

David Guterson

#23. I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Simon Wiesenthal

#24. Liraz's smile was like the love child of a shark and a scimitar.

Laini Taylor

#25. Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Waverley Lewis Root

#26. There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

Casey Stoner

#27. It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Men should strive to think much and know little.

Democritus

#29. As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

Mo Yan

#30. No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

Steve Erickson