Told Us Quotes
187 Told Us quotes by 174 unique authors
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Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured…
— Joanne Harris
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In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,…
— Norman Maclean
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as…
— A A Milne
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The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we…
— Richard Rohr
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My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing.…
— Catherine Marshall
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Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?
— Richelle Mead
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What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
— Stephen Hawking
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Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and…
— Jeannette Walls
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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for…
— Ayn Rand
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
— Alexandre Dumas
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They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out…
— Lauren Oliver
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Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all…
— Roger Ebert
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We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told…
— Rick Riordan
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All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Who Wrote These Told Us Quotes
174 authors contributed a total of 187 Told Us Quotes, led by these top contributors: