I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg”
Source: Katherine's Journal
“I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.”
“I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.”
“I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.”
“I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.”
“I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.”
“I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.”
“I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”
“I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.”
Source: Everything and a Kite
“I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.”
Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
“I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."”
“I came from as low as one could come, with no mother and no father. So in return I build a family for myself and these fella’s were a part of my family. So I had to look out for them, as if I was looking out for my children. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.”
“I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.”
“I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.”
“I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.”
“I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.”
“I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“I came from heaven with a gift. I came from hell with something lost.”
Source: Gold Unicorn
“I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.”
“I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.”
“I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.”
“I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.”
“I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.”
“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.”
“I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.”
“I came from rather humble beginnings.”
“I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.”
“I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.”
“I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.”
“I came from Thailand for you, because Mia said she could probably get you here. I'd have come from Zimbabwe, Outer Mongolia, or a prison in Central America. In truth, I came through hell getting here....because for me that's anywhere you're not.”
Source: Skin Game
“I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.”
“I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.”
“I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.”
“I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.”
“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.”
“I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.”
“I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!”
“I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.”
“I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.”
“I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I had come across a critic called Kenneth Burke, who wrote a book called A Rhetoric of Motives, and it seemed to talk about another way, and gradually I realized that other way was that the reader made a difference.”
“I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.”
“I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.”
“I came here a great deal in those weeks after Under the Mountain.'
My throat tightened as I leaned in to brush a kiss to his cheek. 'Thank you for sharing this place with me.'
'It belongs to you, too, now.' And I knew he meant not just in terms of us being mates, but... in the ways it belonged to the other females here. Who had endured and survived.
I gave him a half smile. 'I suppose it's a miracle that I can even stand to be underground.'
But his features remained solemn, contemplative. 'It is.' He added softly. 'I'm very proud of you.'
My eyes burned, and I blinked as I faced the books. 'And I suppose,' I said with an effort at lightness, 'that it's a miracle I can actually read these things.'
Rhys's answering smile was lovely- and just a bit wicked. 'I believe my little lessons helped.'
'Yes, "Rhys is the greatest lover a female can hope for" is undoubtedly how I learned to read.'
'I was only trying to tell you what you now know.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I came here after billions of years to touch your heart with my purest love.”
“I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.”
“I came here because I assumed everything still is the same, while outside, the world is mad at me.”
Source: Her Rock Star Mountain Man
“I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.”
“I came here for a party and what do I get? Nothing. Not even Ice cream.”
“I came here for the truth, but not this truth.”
Source: Swallowed by a Secret