Here I Am Quotes - Page 2

• I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Chocolate Ice Cream, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Stuff

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• New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Home, Artist, Skills

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• Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

  Virginia Woolf

  Pain, Eye, Squares

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4270, Delphi Classics

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• I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

  Joy Harjo

  Stars, Past, Dust

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• And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

  Homer

  Sucker, Great Simpsons, My Own

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• My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

  Lark Voorhies

  Mother, Character, Years

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Years, Jerusalem

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• So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

  Buddy Guy

  Men, Years, Trying

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• So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Good As It Gets

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

  Sayed Kashua

  Writing, Illinois, Hebrew

  "Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending" by Sayed Kashua and Etgar Keret, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

  David Bezmozgis

  San Francisco, Political, Feelings

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Grace, Survival

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• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Marijuana, Government

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• Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Want, Lasts

  Song: Starships, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded., 2012

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• As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hierarchy, Bees

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• The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. 'Here I am within you.' That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.

  Walter Russell

  Voice, Long, Giving

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• The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.

  Tobais Palmer

  Communication, Angel, Silence

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• Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived.

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Hate, Lying

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• Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

  Drake

  Death, Suicide, Alive

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• I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Jack Dawson". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1997.

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Travel, Regret

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Breathing, One Day, Alive

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• I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.

  Guy Fieri

  Dream, Country, Husband

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• But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

  John Leeson

  Actors, Today, Way

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