Top 35 Recite Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Recite Quotes from famous people such as John Cusack, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Yogi Adityanath, Ice Cube, Holly Marie Combs, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who’s to say anybody’s even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I’ve done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
John Cusack
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I cannot recite Hanuman chalisa at home and wear a skull cap outside just to attract votes. It is my responsibility that, without losing my identity, I must ensure a peaceful environment for people of all faiths so that they can follow their beliefs.
Yogi Adityanath
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.
Ice Cube
It’s funny, because even though on a drama like ‘Picket Fences’ those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there’s a green screen and there’s nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it’s so much more difficult.
Holly Marie Combs
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.
Tanushree Dutta
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’
S. Ansky
My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother taught me how to do poems for Easter and Mother’s Day, recitals and so on. I got attached to that, so as I got older and older, I began to recite poetry.
Rudy Ray Moore
The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse – from both the King James Bible and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’
Kevin Bleyer
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.
Ryan Reynolds
I don’t recite prayers as a blanket rule, but having said that, I do believe that prayers like The Our Father and Hail Mary are powerful prayers.
Krystle D’Souza
My mother’s father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay’s ‘Lays of Ancient Rome.’ While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I’d be Horatius keeping the bridge.
Bernie Taupin
Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
Evan Osnos
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.
David Novak
In sixth grade my teacher said that we had to do a talent show. You could sing or recite a poem… I went a wrote a little sketch for myself called ‘Our Big World’ about how many ways you could use a scarf.
Ann Reinking
When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we’d be on vacation, and I’d just recite Andrew Dice Clay jokes. They seemed to think that was pretty funny. Then it evolved into ‘Wayne’s World.’
Nick Kroll
When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that’s what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.
Ashley Benson
When you’re on TV, you’re looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it’s on TV, I’ve already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
My dad likes to recite the story of ‘Pablo the Donkey’ before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it’s the same; every year, we cringe!
Mallory Jansen
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.
Jonathan Sacks
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.
Amy Jackson
I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
Sam Hunt
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.
Willie Nelson
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.
Brandon Webb
I would write down the lyrics to ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ in Korean – not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn’t know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That’s how I started to write my own raps.
G-Dragon
As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.
Caterina Fake
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Henry Petroski
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann Duffy
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.
P. J. O’Rourke
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?
Sugata Mitra
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.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.
Steven Bauer
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he’s big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You’d learn monologues and you’d recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.
Ishmael Beah
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Robin S. Sharma
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.
Jamais Cascio