Potted Potter Quotes & Sayings

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit! — Daniel Webster

The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking — Guglielmo Marconi

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning ... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. — Pablo Neruda

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel. — Gregor Collins

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? — Marc Chagall

When he looked up at Annabel, he was just a man, looking at a woman, praying and hoping that she loved him the way he loved her. — Julia Quinn

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough. — Elizabeth Reaser

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions. — Serge Schmemann

This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf. — Randy Alcorn

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha. — George Foreman