I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.”
“I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.”
Source: Cruddy
“I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.”
“I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.”
“I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her.”
“I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here and "the house and I resume old conversations".”
“I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.”
Source: Sweetly Sings the Donkey
“I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.”
“i am here and now in all this Omnipresent , i am the universe.”
“I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.”
“I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.”
“I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.”
“I am here at my Lord Cameron’s instructions to talk with you, not to fight you. However if your men decide to engage I will ensure that you are the first to die.”
Source: White Light Red Fire
“I am here because God is there.”
“I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed”
“I am here because I found the courage to go toe-to-toe and stand up to fear.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am here because I want a place from which I can start over.”
“I am here because I worked too hard and too long not to be here. But although I told the university that I would walk across the stage to take my diploma, I won’t. At age fifty-seven, I’m too damned old, and I’d look ridiculous in this crowd. From where I’m standing in the back of the hall, I can see that I am at least two decades older than most of the parents of these kids in their black caps and gowns.
So I’ll graduate with this class, but I won’t walk across the stage and collect my diploma with them; I’ll have the school send it to my house. I only want to hear my name called. I’ll imagine what the rest would have been like. When you’ve had a life like mine, you learn to do that, to imagine the good things.
The ceremony is about to begin. It’s a warm June day and a hallway of glass doors leading to the parking lot are open, the dignitaries march onto the stage, a janitor slams the doors shut, one after the other.
That banging sound.
It’s Christmas Day 1961 and three Waterbury cops are throwing their bulk against our sorely overmatched front door. They are wearing their long woolen blue coats and white gloves and they swear at the cold.
They’ve finally come for us, in the dead of night, to take us away, just as our mother said they would.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care.
“I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.”
“I am here because of love.”
Source: How They Met and Other Stories
“I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.”
“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.”
Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
“I am here for 5 days to enjoy myself and rest. Israel is a beautiful country and the audience is full of passion and I enjoy everything there is here.”
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Source: Og Mandino
“I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need.”
“I am here for the goal, and the goal is to try to do it again.”
“I am here, I am early, even if you arrive late.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.”
Source: The Cranes Dance
“I am here, I am near, you are my priority.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“I am here, I will always be here. Watching you, loving you.”
“I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.”
“I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse.”
Source: Dragonfly
“I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.”
“I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.”
“I AM Here Now As This”
“i am here now. i made it. into the light. i hope i can re-member myself back to the practice of healing. i wanna dance with nature, channel voices, nurture plant medicine and explore the dormant generational gift my great-grandma had with herbal medicine and divine conjuring.”
“I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!”
“I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.”
“I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.”
“I am here only for my writings and views. If you want to be a friend, keep it in your mind. If for any other purpose, you may fail and hurt yourself.”
“I Am Here (The Sonnet)
Look into my eyes,
I wanna listen to your silence.
Tell me of the storms unpassed,
I wanna be your expression express.
Tell me what you have been through,
Tell me of the heartaches unhealed.
Speak the pain you could never utter,
I am here, I am near, you are my priority!
I cannot promise you all the happiness,
Nor can I promise you eternal peace.
But if and when the sky crashes,
I shall be your human shield.
It's okay if you come late to me.
I am here, I am near, I have come early.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“I am here to act only in films with good script.”
“I am here to build an army of self-sacrificing humanitarians across space and time, to march unafraid in the course of equality, inclusion and ascension, fortified with accountability, reason and acceptance. So my question to you is - are you that army? If you are, then chisel this in your brain with the indelible ink of determination - your gospel is goodness, your religion is service, your church is society.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I am here to create greatness, not in living legacy, but memories for thereafter...and then I must go.”
Source: A Dead End Job
“I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.”
“I am here to determine my relationship."
Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she?
"Do you see that man?" Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. "That's Simon Lewis, and he is my boyfriend. So if any of you think about trying to hurt him because he's a mundie or--may the Angel have mercy on your soul--pursuing him romantically, I will come after you, I will hunt you down and I will crush you to powder.”
Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.”
“I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.”