I Quotes
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“I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.”
“I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.”
“I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.”
“I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our hair, we danced, laughing with joy, through the rain and towards the school, the lightning showing us our path with its powerful light.”
Source: Thorns in the Shadow
“I took my girl to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray.”
“I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".”
“I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.”
“I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.”
“I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.”
“I took my little brother, and we went from Beijing to Ulan Bator, and then took a helicopter to the southern Gobi. Streams, grass, and sand dunes to climb. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.”
“I took my love's hand,
then gave her what would be our last kiss.
"Don't you worry," I said.
"We're going to make it through this."
The wind began to scream.
We backed against a wall.
The roof began to tremble,
then all began to fall.”
Source: Joan
“I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.”
Source: Sappho
“I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)”
“I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote something, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum'things has always been and always will be you.
I miss you.”
Source: House of Leaves
“I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.”
“I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.”
Source: White Oleander
“I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'”
“I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it”
“I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“I took my own and Kolya’s two-day ration of bread and lard to the hospital,” the boy said, with unsettling calm beyond his years. “We must do everything we can to save him. If he dies, he won’t need food anymore.”
Danilo’s eyes filled with tears.
“Oh God, how could you let this happen?” he thought bitterly. “Is it fair to take a piece from one starving child to give it to another?”
He pulled his son’s head to his chest.
“You’re probably right,” he said quietly.
After a while, he returned from the pantry with an unusually full bucket of cornmeal and two bundles.
“Mother,” Danilo said to his mother-in-law, handing her the food, “besides the usual bread, bake a few pies with lard and pumpkin—for Kolya… and for Peter.”
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Three
Context note:
Set during the Holodomor, this scene captures the impossible moral choices faced by families during the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine. A child’s stark logic forces adults to confront the inhuman calculus of survival—where compassion meant redistributing hunger, and saving one life could mean endangering another.”
Source: Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга третя. Несправджені сподівання.: Все буде Голодомор.
“I took my parents and past girlfriend up to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea to visit the W. M. Keck Observatory. The plan was to spend a few hours at the summit, but after half an hour the females became sickly and we had to leave.”
“I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.”
“I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“I took my real strength to be able to face childhood sexual abuse.”
“i took my shadow and left
wanting it to be night in me
yet you refused my undoing
asking for light
always more light!
to love is to be changed
with you i grew into my self
when i say you’re my other me
it is an injustice
for you were always my potential”
“I took my sight and mobility for granted.”
“I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!”
“I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.”
“I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.”
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better than meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster, but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each one offering the possibility of a new beginning.”
Source: Jane Austen Ruined My Life
“I took my time to find the perfect girl.”
“I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.”
“I took my weight training to a new level.”
“I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.”
“I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.”
“I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.”
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
“I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.”
“I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.”
“I took off the mask and looked in the mirror.
I was the same child I was years ago.
I hadn't changed at all...
That's the advantage of knowing how to remove your mask.
You're still the child,
The past that lives on,
The child.
I took off the mask, and I put it back on,
It's better this way.
This way I'm the mask.
And I return to normality as to a streetcar terminus.
11 August 1934”
Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
“I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.”
“I took on so many things and not everything was the right fit. If you do that, it can kill your brand. A partnership has to be real and authentic.”
“I took on the shape of a girl.”
Source: The Girls
“I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.”
“I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.”
“I took one long last look at her before disappearing into the Rainbow Forest where another Master was calling me Home. “I love you Jack I love you Jack I love you Jack…” she kept saying, until I was far from her sight. To this day she still whispers, “I love you Jack,” even when she thinks I can't hear her anymore...but I can. Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is just the beginning of everything.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.”
“I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.”