Recitation Class Quotes

#1. I won't tolerate her hurting you, my son. I'll kill the bitch first."
"Weren't you the one who tried to cut father's throat before he Claimed you?"
"He deserved it,

G.A. Aiken

#2. A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Paul Tillich

#4. Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.

Mia Hamm

#6. Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Elie Wiesel

#7. This was your mother's door. She was loyal, brilliant, beautiful, and she was my friend. I will treasure her memory forever.

E.B. White

#8. I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Mark Kennedy

#9. In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Ruzwana Bashir

#10. Hey, man, I'm old school. Don't make me bust out the Easy-E and the N.W.A I will got straight up gangsta on your ass. No one is more hardcore than a rich, suburban white girl.

Alice Clayton

#11. I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Natalie Wood

#12. Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

Bob Lemon

#13. Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you sleep
The Sparrow's Eyes ... Promises shift into judgments
I cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments

Slipknot

#14. Who can wonder at the attractiveness ... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

Marsilio Ficino

#15. There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking and entering, but hey, there wasn't much I was good at, so success felt good nonetheless.

Kalayna Price