Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot...
J.K. Rowling
Related If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothi... PABLO NERUDA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We grow old judging others And ourselves Until life humbles us And makes scared child... KAMAND KOJOURI A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, J.K. ROWLING when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Nam... MADELEINE L'ENGLE They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us ... KAMAND KOJOURI At the sixes and sevens of our mind lead us oh Lord in Thy might In the moment to decide o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air wh... T.S. ELIOT DON'T SAY, DO Do not say things You think I want to hear. Instead, S... SUZY KASSEM What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When... CHARLES WRIGHT Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like... JOHN GREEN O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — her... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every ... HERMANN HESSE She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for... MARIAH MARSDEN Our bodies knock and we pretend like we can't hear They knock to tell us to ... MALEBO SEPHODI When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, li... MAYA ANGELOU Many learn from the past but few do something with it. Take Action. Struggles bring... FARSHAD ASL The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circl... JERRY SPINELLI A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE and you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Come back to me. Where have you gone? And why so long? I miss the star below your lip... KAMAND KOJOURI Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter... OSCAR WILDE I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss PABLO NERUDA In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad<... DOROTHY PARKER The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts! Queenie: HO... J.K. ROWLING In peace we play and freedom ring, Now let us enjoy a mantra to sing, Down here we know ... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES YOUR GREATER ANIMAL They say that if you are Ever confronted by A lion or... SUZY KASSEM Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet, Through echoing forest and echoing street,<... SAROJINI NAIDU We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember your claws running down my... ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN The Doors The End This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my ... JIM MORRISON Some day we will try To do as many things as are possible And perhaps we shall succeed at ... JOHN ASHBERY Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George!... J.K. ROWLING We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world o... LOIS LOWRY Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is t... CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. A... 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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS On Generosity On our own, we conclude: there is not enough to go around w... WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Hide the miles between us Run to me Like you run your Fingers through my hair De... VERONIKA JENSEN For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails cur... D.H. LAWRENCE ...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpet... MIRA GRANT Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a... ARTHUR C. CLARKE I want to fall to sleep with you, and I could care less whether it is in layers up... BEAU TAPLIN In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us ... PITTACUS LORE Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with... MARY ANNE RADMACHER Where do all the memories go, the ones we hide away with lock & AMANDA LOVELACE Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in ... نزار قباني From birth to death and further on As we were born and introduced into this world, W... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE I like to prowl ordinary places. I feel sorry for us all or glad for us all caught a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who�... THOM GUNN Now that you’re old, cut yourself some slack, would you? Let yourself off the hook. LIONEL FISHER Somebody Give us a story Narrate all the places That we’ll never see Give us a... CHARLOTTE WESSELS Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a bab... MARCUS AMAKER Make a memory with your children, Spend some time to show you care; Toys and trinkets can't ... ELAINE HARDT And brilliant days come alive, with you, around but the things we d... ANDREA KOEHLE JONES Come to me. Why must you ruin this moment? You are burdened with thought. Burdened wi... KAMAND KOJOURI I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would he... KAMAND KOJOURI Glossa Time goes by, time comes along, All is old and all is new; What is righ... MIHAI EMINESCU To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, we... ANDREW MARVELL Don’t pack out ______________ To some people, you make life bright When you d... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Everything we say and do affects people. It can be either physically or mentally. Words ca... HINA YU Been given 24 hours To tie up loose ends To make amends His eyes said it all I st... JEM The Wind Will Carry Us In my night, so brief, alas The wind is about to meet the lea... FOROUGH FARROKHZAD Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do! Your life mainly consists of 3 thi... ALLAN RUFUS Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning ... MARY OLIVER and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again CHARLES BUKOWSKI This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pai... OMAR KHAYYáM oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its ... MARY OLIVER Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, ... FRANK O'HARA Our critics make us strong! Our fears make us bold! Our haters make us wise! Our foes... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR So are we lost or do we know Which direction we should go Sit around and wait for someone ... LOST PROPHETS Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Faith is not to believe Or pray that Providence Will help a chieve Anything we wan... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we... THOMAS PYNCHON -Desiderata- Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may... MAX EHRMANN We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM We’re not talking about you. You’re Braith of the Darkness. I’m Addolgar the Cheerful. I’ve ... G.A. AIKEN The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald he... W.B. YEATS Life ain't more than gameboard space With hoops to jump and dreams to chase And one day fate... CHRISTINE ANDERSON What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN On Hallows Eve, we witches meet to broil and bubble tasty treats like goblin thumbs with v... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is fallin... JOSé N. HARRIS May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in thr... SANOBER KHAN Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, H... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But... RUPERT BROOKE "We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag... EDDIE IZZARD This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself an... DR. SEUSS some kill their love when they are young, and some when they are old; some strangle with t... OSCAR WILDE Teach me to sing and recite, To whistle and jingle and strum. Teach me to color and ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
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Professor Moody was limping down the marble st... J.K. ROWLING There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage. J.K. ROWLING Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me... J.K. ROWLING The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ... J.K. ROWLING Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint... J.K. ROWLING Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ... J.K. ROWLING Wow !” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ... J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ... J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin... J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin... J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela! ” he said hoarsely to Harry. “Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion... J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa... J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik... J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ... J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor. J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did. J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�... J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths." "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.... J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby! J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e... J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly. The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M... J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye. J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby. J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher. “What �... J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "... J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur... J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran... J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin... J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you. J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything ... J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor... J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h... J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot... J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light. “Hermione... J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor... J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh... J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D... J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...." "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno... J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha... J.K. ROWLING I love magic! J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,... J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t... J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him... J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so... J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty. J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p... J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un... J.K. ROWLING Why do you live? Because I have something worth living for. J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail. . . . Gladys G... J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver... J.K. ROWLING