- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020