Here I Am Quotes

• Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Running, Running Back, Good Living

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• Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

  Angela Lansbury

  Goes On, Tides, Stills

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• Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Hurt, Trying, Alive

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• Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

  Bette Midler

  Block, Sound, Publicity

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• For the time it lasted, it was really fun. It was as exciting as we can put it out to be, but after that, it was reality. We lost, and here I am.

  Erik Bedard

  Fun, Reality, Lost

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• It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

  Mariah Carey

  Real, Heart, Knees

  Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

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• Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Giving, World, Awful

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

  Richard Siken

  Night, Rome, Leaving

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• Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?

  Darryl Strawberry

  Beautiful, Baseball, Fall

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• In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Fun, Men

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• There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Clothes

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jul 07, 2013

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• I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Able, Too Much, Losing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Wish

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• Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

  Chairil Anwar

  Cutting, Solitude, Beast

  Chairil Anwar (1963). “Selected Poems”

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• There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

  Max Lucado

  Thick Of It, Wanted, Thick

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

  Pat Sajak

  Sometimes, Century, Quarters

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• I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Done, Jewelry Boxes, Wedding Ring

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

  Matthew Lillard

  Funny, Dog, Actors

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• In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."

  Melinda Gates

  Numbers, Gps, Phones

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  George Burns

  Funny, Age, Eccentric

  "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.

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• I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

  George Saunders

  Optimistic, Trying, May

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Book, Wish

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

  Jimmy Carr

  Laughing, Trying, Endorphins

  "Jimmy Carr interview: Motormouth reflects on the crazy world of stand-up comedy". www.mirror.co.uk. November 18, 2011.

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• Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.

  Malcolm X

  Home, America, Mind

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• Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

  Kirk Gibson

  Becoming The Best, Years, World

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