Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“You groped my bum!”
“It was an accident.”
“It was not. You haven’t done anything accidental with that hand since you were twelve.”
“Fifteen, Mabes. You make me sound like some kind of infant sex prodigy.”
Source: Promise Me
“You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites
you and what scares you everyday, not by
trying to find your passion.”
“you grow a bird in a cage and then humiliate it by telling - 'you can't fly'.”
Source: THORNS OF ESLANDA
“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.”
“You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.”
“You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.”
“You grow more when you get more people's perspective.”
“You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the
most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas
where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means
you'll grow most where you're already strong.”
Source: The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success
“You grow, not because you do, but because you have to.”
“You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within
“You grow out of my deepest dreams. You bloom out of my secret longings, for you are another me and I am another you.”
“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”
Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury
“You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.”
“You grow stronger not by avoiding hardship but by facing it with determination.”
Source: MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind
“You grow the fastest by getting... adopting ideas and technologies from other cultures. And that has been proven in history, time and time again. Whether you go back to the ancient Persians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans. It's how a culture grows, by incorporating other ideas and going, wow, how did they do this? Oh, I bet you this works with this, and then you can improve it again. So I think any culture that sort of says, no no no, it's just us, nobody gets in anymore, it's the beginning of atrophy, and the rest of the world will just pass you.”
“You grow to feel alive only when you are the most obsessed or desperate, and then you find another and another thing to project this on—relationship after relationship, friendship after friendship—all crumbles before your eyes, and you ask why, knowing the reason is always you.”
“You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.”
“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”
“You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.”
“You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.”
“You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.”
“you grow up around something and it feels like nothing”
Source: Columbus
“You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.”
“You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.”
“You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.”
“You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.”
“You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.”
“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.”
“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.”
“You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.”
Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey
“You grow up to believe that if you say, Please pass the salt, a person will reach toward the shaker, grab it in his hand, and move it in your direction. But then one day some of us might learn that it can happen that you can say, Please pass the salt, and a person will jam his hand into the mayonnaise jar and fling a fistful of it at your face. All at once, words don't mean what they're supposed to mean.
I am a girl. My name is Io. I say no thanks, not me, stop please. But all at once, words do not matter. I do not matter.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.”
“You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.”
“You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.”
Source: Only Words
“You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.”
Source: The Hours: A Novel
“You grow when you stop negotiating with your limitations.”
“You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue”
Source: Bestiary: Poems
“You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.”
Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day
“You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!”
“You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.”
“You grumpy types are no fun. Can’t you put your own damnation aside for two seconds and let the suspense build?”
Source: Threshold
“You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.”
“You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.”
“You Gujarati people are so cute but why is your food so dangerous dhokla, fafda, handva, thepla it sounds like they are missiles”
“You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.”
“You guys (E.L.F.) are all so precious for me. Can't be changed with other things.”
“You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that’s why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right now?' All these black rappers? African rappers? Talking about how much money they have. Do you realize what's going on in Africa right now? It's just like, you guys are disgusting. Talking about billions and billions of dollars you have. And spending it frivolously, when you know, the Motherland is suffering beyond belief right now.”