a passage selected from a larger work

advance evidence for

repeat a passage from

make reference to

refer to

a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

the representation of another person's words in a speech

an incorrect quotation

(computing) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "cookie file") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.

(usually plural) a saying of Jesus not in the canonical gospels but found in other New Testament or early Christian writings.