I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.”
“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”
“Immerse your soul in love.”
“Immerse yourself in a cause you're passionate about.”
“Immerse yourself in beauty and bathe yourself in positivity.”
“Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony
and let your senses burst with joy.”
“Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.”
Source: Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose
“Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.”
“Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.”
“Immerse yourself in the world or the industry that you wish to master.”
Source: The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations
“Immerse yourself in things that invigorate your passion and feed your spirit.”
“Immerse yourself into yourself.”
“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”
Source: Against the Grain
“Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.”
Source: Back to Grace
“Immersing herself into the feelings of the characters provided a reprieve from her own. She grieved, suffered, and emerged stronger with them.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“Immersing in a story stimulates the brain; observing a story can make us absent-minded.”
“Immersing myself in the lyrics of Latvian folksongs, I sensed something else may be at work: A melancholy related to homesickness. A longing for an idealized home that is perpetually out of reach.”
Source: The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness With a Partner I'll Never Understand - Library Edition
“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”
Source: Snow
“Immersing yourself in another's dream does not mean you accept it as truth, it merely means you are trying to see the world as they do, to better understand them, as well as yourself and the world around you. - The Malwatch”
“Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.”
“Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment”
“Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.”
“Immersion in the ugliness of injustice, in the hope of change, seems preferable to turning away. . . . there is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and suffering: Walking into pain in the hope of bringing change moves a person from helplessness and despair to empowered activism”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“Immigrant American (Sonnet 2847-2850)
With bold new dreams we crossed the sea,
escaping chains, seeking liberty -
but the land we found had living roots,
ancient voices we chose to mute.
We called ourselves the civilized,
while truth was buried falsified -
we took the land, we drew the lines,
and called it an act of grand design.
But history whispers through the ground,
in every stolen, silenced sound -
if liberty is what we claim,
then justice must ignite our vein.
Say, can you see the truth we hide,
behind the stars, behind the pride -
a banner bright yet shadows cast,
by wounds we've carried from the past!
If freedom is judged by how we treat
the ones trodden beneath our feet,
then we are far from brave and free,
we are what we refuse to see.
No dawn will break, no future grow,
if hate is the seed we choose to sow -
before we praise, before we claim,
we must unlearn the roots of shame.
If migrants aren't American,
then neither is Lady Liberty -
she too arrived from distant lands,
yet stands as hope for all to see.
This soil was shaped by wandering souls,
by broken dreams aiming to be whole -
a nation thrives not by its walls,
but by how wide it opens doors.
America is not the best,
America is the test we face -
not supremacy, not perfection,
but courage born of self-correction.
Not red or blue, not black or white,
but every shade holds the human light -
no stars for hate, no stripes for fear,
let human hearts be what we wear.
Sing, o sing, not of empty glory -
write anew a human story.
No more flags soaked in denial,
no more pride that breeds exile.
Rise, o rise, from myth to task -
dare the truth now, face the facts.
Not land of the free in word alone,
make humanity our only throne.
Here, you take the Naskar Pen,
now go lead with the Dream of the King -
from fractured past to conscious dawn,
a human nation will sure be born.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.”
“Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.”
“Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it back to its sense of confidence... All of these immigrants that come here help us with the work they do, they challenge us with new ideas and new perspectives, and they give us perspective.”
“Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”
“Immigrants are often discussed in terms of a push-and-pull dynamic: something pushes you from home; something else pulls you far away. Opportunities dry up one place and emerge somewhere else, and you follow the promise toward a seemingly better future. Versions of these journeys stretch back hundreds of years in all different directions.”
Source: Stay True
“Immigrants are supposed to be grateful. The narrative arc of immigration, in which one flees their own failing society to come to a better place, a country that was under no obligation to accept them but did, demands perpetual gratitude. And it exists, this gratitude, but the narrative makes no room for the many shapes it comes in, its many less straightforward forms. I harbor no ill will toward the immigrant who waves the miniature flag on the sides of the Independence Day parade, who says honestly and plainly: I love this country. But nor do I judge the immigrant who is as emotionless and pragmatic about the nation-state as the people who run that nation-state are so regularly emotionless and pragmatic about immigrants, who says honestly and plainly: I don't love this country, don't love any country, patriotism being the property of an entirely different kind of life than luck has given me; I live here because it will always be safer to live on the launching side of the missiles. I live here because I am afraid.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.”
“Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.”
“Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.”
“Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.”
“Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.”
“Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.”
“Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.”
“Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.”
“Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of.”
“Immigrants, we get the job done.
(Acknowlegments)”
Source: The Poppy War
“Immigrants were also often Type T. You take a huge risk that alters the course of your life and the generations that come after. Whether you're running away or toward something, it takes cojones to leave your home and start from scratch.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”
“Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely, but they've committed to the place, and they know that they need to make certain kinds of concessions. They change themselves in some way to fit in. They're looking forward as much as they're still looking backward.”
“Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.”
“Immigratie is geen mensenrecht maar een voorrecht! Wij bepalen wie dat voorrecht geniet; wie binnen mag en wie niet en vooral ook wie er terug uitgaat… Helaas bepalen wij dat steeds minder maar doen internationale instellingen en rechtbanken dat…”
Source: Omvolking, de grote vervanging
“Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.”
“Immigration and border security remain critical issues that I am committed to addressing this year. The good news is that illegal immigration is at an all-time low, making now the time to dedicate the needed technology and resources to finally secure the border for good. As border security improves, I look forward to working in a bipartisan manner to fix our broken immigration system and address the millions of people living in the United States outside of legal status.”
“Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.”
“Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.”