Top 151 Recite Quotes & Sayings

My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

What is SOCOM's mission statement in two sentences? Most people I know in SOF cannot recite it. If it's not clear from the bottom up, then it's a problem.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.

Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

Recite Holy Quran, It is the only way.

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Hillary Clinton asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads: "I'm with her." I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: "I'm with you, the American people."

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

The story I always recite - and have had to recite so many times over the years to different lawyers and different people within Universal - is that the business end of Mo'Wax was basically, like, 'Give us the big ones samples first, and we'll see how we get on.' And I gave them the six or seven that were, to me, the ones that were the scariest, and the biggest use. It wasn't about the big names, necessarily - although that played into it a bit, with people like Bjork and Metallica.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.