T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They told me I would never amount to anything unless I married a man to take care of me. Never listen to that lie, always care for yourself.”
“They told me I wouldn't make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking - they're all dead now.”
“They told me I'd have to be there for the entire shooting of the movie which was two and a half months and again, I was surprised. Most movies I'd worked on before took only a day or so, so I realized this was a pretty big deal. I got to the set and was involved in a very integral way, which was a fun experience to be a part of.”
“They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.”
“They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.”
“They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.”
“They told me not to write about him, but how do I write without a muse?”
“They told me that Cinderpelt had hidden them here. I reckoned that if Cinderpelt had something to do with it, then you must know. Sheltering a couple of sickly fleabags is just the sort of thing you'd do."
"Well, I wasn't exactly thrilled when I found out," Fireheart admitted.
"But I bet you let her off."
"Fireheart shrugged. "Well, yes."
"She always could wrap you around her paw," meowed Graystripe affectionately.”
Source: Rising Storm
“They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.”
Source: Damned
“They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.”
“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”
“They told me to pay attention to my heart; that it would lead me to my purpose, my passion. So, I did, I listened closely to the timbre of my heart and it always brought me back to you.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
“They told us a love like ours could not weather a storm.
The storm did come, roughed us up. We are standing, still.
Wet,
but still standing.”
“They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”
“They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.”
“They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.”
“they told us to sit still
to cross our legs
like pretty decorations
never to run too fast
or dream too loud
but we are more
than quiet artifacts”
Source: Rootless
“They told you that you were safe. They told you lies. You are weak and defeated. For the price of one helicopter, we have brought you to your knees.”
Source: Lethal Code
“They, too, carry the source within them. But for their children, cast into a windblown century without God, where is there to be but alone and unseen, anonymous in the crowd? Who will carry us back to a place that lives only in the vast imaginary? 'Do you not see how a caged bird, oh youth, / Breaks into song when it recalls its ancestral home?”
Source: This Strange Eventful History
“They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.”
“They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.”
“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)”
“They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.”
“They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.”
“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.”
“They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“They took everything but the fire inside me—and that was the one thing they should have feared.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“They took everything from her, her job, friends, boyfriend, freedom, choices, income, access to her stuff, even her lucky Buddha figurine, but what they couldn’t take from her, if she didn’t allow them, was who she was.”
Source: Magic Tree
“They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.”
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, “the man who freed the slaves.” He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not.”
Source: The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
“They took my books
because my message was love.
They took my pen
because my words were love.
Then they took my voice
because my song was love.
Soon they’ll take myself
so nothing remains.
But they don’t know that when I'm gone
my love will stay.”
“They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them”
“They took something from me, and if I don't get it back on my own, it won't matter. It won't be mine."
"They?"
"Trent. All of them. They made me a victim. ... Help me be something else again.”
Source: Beyond Pain
“They took the elevator up to the eighth floor. Charbonnel et Walker Chocolate Café was tucked between Ladies' Shoes and the Home and Gifts Department. Bathed in pale pink paint and lit by crystal chandeliers, the enchanted corner was dominated by a counter featuring a conveyor belt that transported plates of croissants, brownies, scones, muffins, and every imaginable truffle under glass domes. Dark and milk chocolate, strawberry, lemon, pink champagne, mint, cappuccino, and buzz fizz with its distinctive orange center. Sparkling glass cabinets temptingly displayed hundreds of the treats lined up in precise rows. They could be consumed on the premises or purchased to take away. A gold seal on the candy boxes signaled that the Queen of England was a fan.”
Source: To Have and to Kill
“They took the Kingdom, they took his own destiny. But he is willing to wage a war, against the whole world if need be, to bring everything back.”
Source: Stone Will
“They took the long way. Around the lake. Through the park where he’d hunted as a young crow. Where the trees still knew him by name.
They lit a few bottle rockets from the back of the wagon. Told the old stories. And Calvin listened like it was the first time and the last time all at once.”
Source: Calvin and the Coyote
“They took the red string which bound me to you
They sank it in the center of the ocean”
Source: Rome: Poems
“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
“They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.”
“They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.”
Source: Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night
“They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.”
Source: Red Queen
“They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.”
“They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.”
“They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.”