I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
“I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.”
“I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.”
“I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.”
“I belong to the tribe of Levi.”
“I belong to the whole world but America will always be my home country, because she adopted me and honored me as a son, when the country I was born in kicked me around like garbage.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“I belong to the World,”
“I belong to the World. I cannot be a part of humanity."
"I don't belong to any man.
I don't belong to any woman.
I don't belong to any religion.
I don't belong to any country.
I don't believe in borders.
I don't believe in hate.
I am as old as the mountains.
I am as vast as the sky.
I am as deep as the ocean.
They asked me my name.
And I said I am the rain.”
“I belong to the World. I cannot be the role model for a part of humanity."
~ Avijeet Rabindranath Das "Musafir"
"I don't belong to any man. I don't belong to any woman. I don't belong to any religion. I don't belong to any country. I don't believe in borders. I don't believe in hate. I am as old as the mountains. I am as vast as the sky. I am as deep as the ocean.
They asked me my name.
And I said I am the rain."
~ Avijeet Rabindranath Das "Musafir”
“I belong to the world.I'm in a relationship with the world.”
“I belong to this earth. So do you.”
Source: The Courage Circle: How to Live in Truth and Dare
“I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.”
Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
“I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.”
“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy.”
“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I've ever had.”
Source: City of Glass
“I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.”
Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)
“I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.”
Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series
“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.”
“I belong where you belong”
“I belong wherever I choose.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“I belong wherever I want to be.”
Source: The Host
“I belonged here the way I belonged to this planet and its people, but on one condition: alone, always alone.”
Source: Enigma Variations
“I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.”
“I belonged to another club, and liked the camaraderie.”
“I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.”
“I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.”
“I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.”
“I bend and do not break.”
Source: Selected Fables
“I bend arrows into ornaments,
heckles only tickle my soul.
I turn junk into jewel,
I reclaim the fakes as fuel.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I bend but do not break.”
“I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.”
“I bend over more deeply and ask him again what happens here.
— Don't you see? Here they take the lives of our nearest and dearest. Don't you see that these are the close of the poor wretches who come here?”
“I bend, but I do not break.”
“I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.”
“I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.”
“I benefited from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me even when I didn't always believe in myself.”
“I bent down and felt her neck for a pulse, as I’d seen the paramedics do with Philip.”
Source: Full Moon Saturday Night
“I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.”
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.”
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.”
“I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.”
“I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.”
“I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.
Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth...
What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I beseech you…think it possible that you may be mistaken.”
“I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.”
Source: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“I beseech you to open your hearts and give back! Give your time/services/money/support/encouragement/love! Give whatever you can!”
“I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”