A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I had was an old bamboo pole that was cracked at the base, a handful of rusty hooks, a coffee can full of worms, and a listless summer’s afternoon sitting on an aging dock. And the greatest joy on any one of those many summer days was not catching the fish that filled my bucket. Rather, it was to release them at the end of the day so that they might fill the bucket of another.”
“All I had was his program, and now that was being aken away too. All I wanted was to get help and strength I needed to return to my nothing.
"Have you booked your flight yet?" asked an impatient nurse who was peeking into my room. I wiped the tears from my face an shook my head no.
"An hour ago you wouldn't even let me take a private pee. Now you're just going to open the door and let me walk out? Is this what you do? Just push suicidal girls out the door?" I asked her with bewilderment. I had been blindsided not even ten minutes beofre, and they expected me to have a flight booked already? Was she serious? An hour ago I was on lockdown, not to be trusted to move freely...now I was being asked to leave for the nearest airport with no exit plan, no guidance, no support whatsoever.”
Source: Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
“All I had was natural ability.”
“All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need.”
“All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.”
“All I have besides food is grief.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“All I have bought myself is worse problems, no matter how good it felt to salve my pride.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.”
“All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.”
“All i have in my life is my imagination”
“All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.”
“All I have is a voice.”
“All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”
“All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.”
“All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.”
“All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.”
“All I have is natural ability.”
“All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.”
“All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.”
“All I have is this missing. And part of me is glad it won't end because it's all I have to connect me to her now.”
“All I have is this pale image of a clouded dream that could never be real, and I can’t seem to move on. She had this wild laugh about her, and it was special, you know… it was rare, it was different, and it was mine, and I can’t find it anywhere… because it’s gone. She was special, she was different, and different is hard to find.”
“All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.”
“All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.”
“All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.”
Source: The Furious Longing of God
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
“All I have left are the memories I prayed to always remember. Now, they are the memories I would kill anything to forget.”
Source: My Own Ghost: A Poetry Book for Women and Men exploring Love, Loss, and Mental Health
“All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better. Most of the time I just want to shake some sense into the world.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”
Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity
“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
Source: Complete Stories
“All I have to concentrate on is my performing.”
“All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.”
“All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.”
“All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.”
“All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.”
“All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong”
“All I have to do is play football now.”
“All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.”
“All I have to do is set the power free. Escape the chains of humanity, let madness be my guide. If I forget everything but Wonderland, I can become beautiful pandemonium.”
Source: Unhinged
“All I have to do is survive until graduation. One day at a time, right? I know that’s a mantra from Alcoholics Anonymous, but as far as odious afflictions go, it’s my experience that high school should have a twelve-step recovery or its own. There’d probably be fewer alcoholics if it did.”
Source: Scions
“All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.”
“All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.”
“All I have to do is what's right for me.”
“All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver's license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a pizza, lend a steadying arm, laugh at a morbid joke and compliment a bad wig and I know the metric system. I doubt that's gonna be enough.”
“All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.”
“All I have to say is - run, dive, pitch a tent... Spend hours on the phone with your best friend.... Wear bikinis. Drink tequila. Wake up in the morning happy for no good reason.... Lie in the grass, dream of your future, of your imperfect life & your imperfect marriage to your imperfect true love.... Because what else is there? Honestly, there's nothing else. Nothing else matters.”
Source: Wife 22
“All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.”
“All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!”
“All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.”
“All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.”
“All I have to worry about is myself, you know. The rest will take care of itself.”
Source: The Secret History