1. cite - Noun
2. cite - Verb
To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
To urge; to enjoin.
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.
To bespeak; to indicate.
To notify of a proceeding in court.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare
In quoting others, we cite ourselves. Julio Cortázar
I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe. Jack Vance
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. Barney Frank
In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. "To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron. Hans Georg Dehmelt
Every time people cite a principle of theoretical physics in support of a metaphysical doctrine or physical dogma, they commit a mistake, for they attribute to this principle a meaning not its own, an import not belonging to it. Pierre Duhem