Me Quotes

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

~ Jerry Garcia

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

~ Gail Simmons

Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.

~ Matt Lauer

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

~ Ernie Banks

If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.

~ Chris Young

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

~ Deborah Eisenberg

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

~ Kenny Loggins

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

~ Gustavo Dudamel

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

~ Candace Cameron Bure

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

~ Evelyn Underhill

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

~ Nicholas Brendon

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

~ Leon Jouhaux

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

~ Hart Crane

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

~ Ridley Pearson

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

~ Thomas Edward Brown

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

~ Brian Clough

Give me liberty or give me death.

~ Patrick Henry

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

~ Steve Earle

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

~ John Perez

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

~ Winston Churchill

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

~ Tite Kubo

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

~ Giuseppe Garibaldi

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

~ Douglas Macarthur

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

~ Anne Boleyn

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

~ John Steinbeck

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

~ Brendan Behan

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

~ John Donne

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

~ Huston Smith

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

~ Platon

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

~ Jimmy Chin

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

~ Regina Brett

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

~ Jennifer Lopez

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

~ Mickey Rourke

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

~ Stevie Nicks

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

~ Tom Robbins