Auspicious Beginning Quotes & Sayings

A large trencher made of bread was set on the table (one for every two people). One person sliced the trencher and kept half, and the other person used the second half as a plate. Plates are not found in England until the very end of the fourteenth century. Dinner began with a blessing from the chaplain followed by a procession led from the unoccupied side of the lord's table by the steward who oversaw the staff. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Big Men and Big Women, — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts - I did - still do, 'smatter of fact. — J.K. Rowling

Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see. — Shona Patel

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart. — Alethea Kontis

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same. — Dan O'Brien

I hated myself, too, not only because I let het go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn't have even wanted to leave. — John Green

Siva asking about my past? Were we going to sing campfire songs and hold hands now?

Sloane — Micalea Smeltzer

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. — Ezra Pound

Shut up, I'm thinking!
-Jayfeather (Night Whispers) — Erin Hunter

I don't make music for the eyes, I make music for the ears. — Adele

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it. — Douglas Carter Beane

And I never wanted Tegan to not get what I was gonna get. It's something that goes very, very much back to a very deep childhood place. She was the most important person to me, and probably at some point developmentally, I couldn't even detach she was something separate from me. — Sara Quin