I Started Quotes
2738 I Started quotes by 2133 unique authors
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Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked.…
— Rick Riordan
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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last…
— Shane Claiborne
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
— Jonathan Carroll
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Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that…
— Eve Ensler
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I'm just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for…
— Jennifer Rardin
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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told…
— Walt Disney
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
— Philip Roth
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I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.
— Gary Snyder
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There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.
— Sylvia Plath
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty…
— Alice Hoffman
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them…
— Harper Lee
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I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to…
— Claudia Gray
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I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
— Jan Karon
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After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend…
— Karen Armstrong
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You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that…
— Henry Ford
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... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance…
— Martha Graham
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And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.
— Alyson Noel
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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
— Walt Whitman
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Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear…
— Unknown Author
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