Me Quotes

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

~ Fidel Castro

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

~ John Sharp Williams

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.

~ Julie Andrews

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

~ Edward Kennedy

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

~ William Jennings Bryan

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

~ Albert Camus

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

~ Prince Charles

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

~ Nikki Giovanni

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

~ Philippa Gregory

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

~ Jeremy Hardy

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

~ Issa Rae

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

~ Neil Armstrong

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

~ Ted Kulongoski

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

~ Lex Luger

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

~ Jared Diamond

History will treat me right.

~ Ralph Abernathy

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

~ Susana Martinez

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

~ Dick Gregory

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

~ Wen Jiabao

The public do get behind me, and I love the crowd. When I'm ever in London, they give me massive support - the Anniversary Games, the cheers; they are always nice to me.

~ Mo Farah

'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.

~ Jennifer Jason Leigh

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

~ Timothy Simons

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.

~ Buck Owens

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

~ Gregory H. Johnson

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

~ Steven Spielberg

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

~ Ashlee Simpson

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

~ Amy Tan

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

~ Loni Anderson

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'

~ Bill Burr

Twitter and Facebook are such amazing networks for me to introduce myself to the world and for fans around the world to introduce themselves to me.

~ Jenn Proske

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

~ John Krasinski

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

~ Gary Numan

It's pretty amazing being me.

~ Matthew Morrison

My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.

~ Patty Jenkins

From my mom telling me 'no' to now telling everyone I'm the champion, and she's so proud of me, and to prove to a lot of people - who didn't believe in me, who didn't think I was going to be here - that I'm here, and I did it. It's been a roller coaster of emotions; it's amazing.

~ Sasha Banks

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

~ Sally Struthers

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

~ Madonna Ciccone

Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

~ Jill Scott