I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.”
“I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.”
“I was born with six fingers on each hand.”
“I was born with something inside me that refuses to settle for average. It’s called sensuality.”
“I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!”
“I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.”
“I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.”
Source: After all
“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
“I was born with the gift.”
“I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.”
Source: Conundrum
“I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to
The wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place
At the wrong time
For the wrong reason
And the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day
Of the wrong week
Used the wrong method
With the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong.”
“I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.”
“I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.”
“I was born with two hands to be a giver, not a fighter.”
“I was born with two shadows. One is thrown by the sun. The other is the Stranger.”
Source: Smoke and Other Storms
“i was born with wide eyes and a fragile heart that never learned to say no”
Source: soft thorns
“I was born without lineage,
without a holy claim -
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.
But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I was born wounded, but I chose to be born. I choose this life not for simplicity but for the insurmountable challenges. Where will I fill my empty heart? Where will I find the one true peace? I have the right to ask where the answers are as well as the hope because without this hope and peace, I am nothing.”
Source: The Bear—In the Middle of Between
“I was born, yes. But to suffer and gain nothing. Just a life full of misery and torment.”
“I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“I was born, have lived, and will die free.”
“I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.”
“I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.”
“I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.”
Source: Blow Me Down
“I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.”
“I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.”
“I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.”
“I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.”
“I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.”
“I was brave. I was foolish.
I went to help him without another thought.”
Source: Echo North
“I was breaking down, wanting to fade away and cry, yet I feared ever being invisible again. My head lowered to conceal my humiliation behind a curtain of hair where I trembled as if sobbing.
“Hey, Gwen, it’s okay. It’s okay. Calm down.”
I yearned to feel Daniel’s soft touch meet my temple and then trace along my ear, brushing back the hairs from my face. What I wanted was the comfort his caress always afforded me. He moved as if he would grant my wish, realizing at the last moment that neither of us possessed the power to touch the other.
“Your hair, Gwen.”
I refused to do what he wanted. I didn’t care for him to see the shame plainly visible in my features. But the next thing I knew, his blue eyes were staring up at me from the ground, a glare reflecting off his glasses. The guy had dropped his books to fall over for a clear view of my face. His desperation made me laugh.
“It’s going to be okay, Gwen, I promise."
—from "Phantom's Veil”
“I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?”
Source: Misfortune
“I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I’d start sobbing again. “Whoa, there.” Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. “Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay?”
“I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.”
“I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.”
“I was bred for war darling
be it love
or chaos
everything I do
is to the death.”
“I was bred to consider my own station in life, to blaze forward, to do the best, be the best, but the way Jimena and Lucy use the word build is communal. Building is talking and sharing experiences. It's gaining trust. Using the ideas and knowledge of others as building blocks to construct something that can be shared and serve all.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
“I was briefly bitter.”
“I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.”
“I was brimming with anger and hatred. I hated, not society, puny sociologists' abstraction, I hated the universe. I wanted to cause it pain in return for the pain it caused me.”
Source: A Word Child
“I was bringing shame to them both, but I had no choice. It was their pride or my future and I could not, would not, sacrifice myself on the altar of their expectations.”
“I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.”
“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.”
“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.”
“I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
“I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.”
Source: Titus Alone