Recitation Quotes

We believe the evidence in the end will show that not all of Mr. Prior's recitation of what happened is entirely true. - Charles Bretz

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

Was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record will report that Judge Roberts has been entirely accurate in his statements. - Ed Gillespie

Those who know the ,rules of recitation declare that in the rainy season the Veda study must be stopped on these two ,occasions , when the wind is audible at night, and when it whirls up the dust in the day time. - Guru Nanak

Therefore when We have recited it, follow its recitation. - Quran

The public recitation of great poetry is a way to honor the speaker, the poem, and the audience all at once. To learn a great poem by heart is to make a friend for life. - John Barr

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. - Robert Anton Wilson

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. - Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. - Natalie Merchant

On more than one occasion, Mr. Tate asked me for a recitation of what Ms. Miller would say. I did not provide one. - Floyd Abrams