I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!”
“I have lived in many places, you understand. Not only different countries with different languages, but in many conditions. Rich, poor, and many shades between. And I have never met a person who introduced themselves to me by telling me how special they were who was, in any way, special.”
Source: Just One More Night
“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.”
“I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.”
“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”
“I have lived in seventy-two cities over the course of my life," the old man said, proudly. "There is no part of the world, I know nothing about."
The young people on the bench beside him looked at him with admiration.
"And which city did you like best?" one asked him.
The old man thought for a long time, then sighed.
"Now I look back," he said, "I think I was happiest in the village in the country where I grew up. If it had been the second place I had lived, I like I should have stayed there my whole life. But because it was the first, I convinced myself that there must be somewhere better and have never stopped looking for it.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“I have lived in seventy-two cities over the course of my life," the old man said, proudly. "There is no part of the world, I know nothing about."
The young people on the bench beside him looked at him with admiration.
"And which city did you like best?" one asked him.
The old man thought for a long time, then sighed.
"Now I look back," he said, "I think I was happiest in the village in the country where I grew up. If it had been the second place I had lived, I think I should have stayed there my whole life. But because it was the first, I convinced myself that there must be somewhere better and have never stopped looking for it.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.”
Source: Conversations with James Thurber
“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”
“I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.”
“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but I carry in my hands the remnants of their fire.”
“I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever.
I have grieved like a professional mourner—in every waking moment, draining every ounce of my life force.
I died—without leaving my body.
But I came back, and now it’s your turn.
I have learned to remember my past—without living in it.
I am strong, electric, and alive, because I chose to dance, to laugh, to love, and to
live again.
I have learned that you can’t re-create the life you once had—you have to
reinvent a life for yourself.
And that reinvention is a gift, not a curse.
I believe your future self is a work of art and that science can help you create it. If you’re lost . . . if you’re gone . . . if you can barely absorb the words on this
page . . . I want you to hold this truth in your heart: when it’s your time to go, you won’t wish you had spent more time grieving; you’ll wish you had spent more time living.
That’s why I’m here. And why you are, too. Let’s live like our lives depend on it.”
Source: Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again
“I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.”
“I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.”
“I have lived in the USA for over two decades and no one has ever pointed a gun at me.”
“I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many years, to leave, to find a new home and move into it, perhaps to fight for it. I, too, have grown old. One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.”
Source: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.”
“I have lived knowing nothing of the forest so there is nothing I can teach you. Go into the wild. Know the world....”
Source: Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki
“I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.”
“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius”
“I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered”
“I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.”
“I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it.”
“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.”
“I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”
“I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle of all your crisis. Whenever He comes the whole storm goes down.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.”
“I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.”
“I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.”
“I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)”
Source: God's Icebreaker: The Life and Adventures of Father Ted Hesburgh of Notre Dame
“I have lived long enough to understand that life is not about them or I but us. And living is definitely about me.”
“I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an
end”
Source: Selected Verse
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.”
Source: Macbeth
“I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.”
“I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.”
“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.”
“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”
“I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart”
“I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.”
Source: Wake Up, I'm Fat!
“I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience”
“I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.”
“I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.”
“I have lived my whole life with high intensity.”
“I have lived nine lives, and that which I have done
May Cat within Himself make fur! But thou,
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Purr for my soul. More things are wrought by purrs
Than this world dreams of…
But now farewell. I am going a long way…”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.”
Source: A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire