Quotes About Recited

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose

On Flag Day in 1954 Eisenhower signed legislation that added the phrase "one nation under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by millions of children in American schools.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.

By way of farewell, I recited Mandelshtam's † melancholy poem: The horses tread slowly, The lamps burn low, And where they are taking me Only strangers know.

and Ravn recited a long poem about some ancient hero who killed a monster and then the monster's mother who was even more fearsome than her son, but I was too drunk to remember much of it. And

Fred's Jewish students recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning. "He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace upon us and upon all Israel," they read.

Picard made sure Elnor got to bed, as he promised, and recited to him some of The Little Prince that he remembered.

God wants children to live in homes and a community where the laws of God are not just recited and talked about but lived. Children need to see and experience the faith in action.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.