T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. ‘Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, ‘but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.”
“The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really us. I was worried that my signature wouldn't look the same. I wasn't sure when that thing would happen that made it so you always signed your name exactly the same, but it hadn't happened to me yet. So far I'd only had to sign something three times. Once for a code of conduct for the eighth grade field trip to Philadelphia, once for a pact I made with Beans and Frances Wykoski in fifth grade that we'd never have boyfriends until high school. (Of the three of us, I'm the only one who kept that pact.)”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“The day my NCO support channel abandoned me like a unwanted child at a Fire Station to a toxic commander was the same day I evolved into the most tenacious and resilient NCO tbey had ever served beside.”
“The day my story began, my life felt like a plastic bag tightly wrapped around my head.”
Source: Red Wings: A Lust in Paris Novel - Vol. I
“The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.”
“The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.”
“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
“The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.”
“The day of birth is a miraculous day.”
“The day of birth is day of life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.”
“The day of fire is coming, the thrush
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.”
Source: The death notebooks
“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.”
“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]”
“The day of individual happiness has passed.”
“The day of judgment is either approaching or
it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I
choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be
brought.”
Source: One man's America
“The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.”
“The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent”
Source: The Stranger
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.”
Source: Frankenstein
“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.”
Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg
“The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”
Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
“The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.”
“The day of perfection is not scheduled on earth.”
“The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.”
“The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.”
“The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.”
Source: Kangaroo
“The day of the android has dawned.”
“The day of the ball came at last, and with it the tedious and delightful rituals of femininity.”
“The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.”
“The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.”
“The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.”
“The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.”
“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.”
“The Day of Victory is coming. We are the Coming Race. We are HyperHumanity. We are the Illuminati. Mark our words, we are coming. Not today, not tomorrow, but we are on our way. Vincit Omnia Veritas.”
Source: Contra Mundum
“The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.”
“The day offers problems. The night provides solutions.”
Source: Heart of the Storm
“The day on which she turned eleven, Grandfather Bill had presented her with her very own orchid.
"This is especially for you, Julia. Its name is 'Aerides odoratum,' which means 'children of the air.'"
Julia studied the delicate ivory and pink petals of the flower sitting in its pot. They felt velvety beneath her touch.
"Where does this one come from, Grandfather Bill?" she had asked.
"From the Orient, in the jungles of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand."
"Oh. What kind of music do you think it likes?"
"It seems particularly partial to a touch of Mozart," chuckled her grandfather. "Or if it looks like it's wilting, perhaps you could try some Chopin!”
Source: The Orchid House
“The day one orange-haired extremist came to power in a democracy, all the extremists in the world started getting ideas.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us.”
Source: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“The day passed.
People had butchered my name, teachers hadn’t known what the hell to do with me, my math teacher looked at my face and gave a five-minute speech to the class about how people who don’t love this country should just go back to where they came from and I stared at my textbook so hard it was days before I could get the quadratic equation out of my head.
Not one of my classmates spoke to me, no one but the kid who accidentally assaulted my shoulder with his bio book.
I wished I didn’t care.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“The day Rick Ross dives into the crowd, is the day we find out who his true fans are.”
“The day’s sun lined a thin thread
In my eye
And I
And I
See her
In all the moments of my seed
In all the moments of my eye.”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“The day Science recognise Humanity in Totality - as in Energy & Mass - we would know with evidence that there is birth of Anti-Humanity simultaneously with Humanity.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“The day seems brighter when seen through a gentle smile, touched by quiet grace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.”
Source: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia