Am Quotes (page 225)

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• street
• moments
• week

The third week of June, and there it is again: the same almost embarrassing familiar breath of sweetness that comes every year about this time. I catch it on the warm evening air as I walk past the well-ordered gardens in my quiet street, and for a moment I am a child again and everything before me - all of the frightening, half-understood promises of life. Michael Frayn

• uncle
• scouting
• scout

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady? Harper Lee

• alone
• work
• him

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done Thomas Merton

• help
• responsibility
• helpful

I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, no matter what I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. Jean-Paul Sartre

• manly
• old man
• grandpa

Here I am in the garden laughingan old woman with heavy breastsand a nicely mapped facehow did this happenwell that's who I wanted to beat last a womanin the old style sittingstout thighs apart undera big skirt grandchild slidingon off my lap a pleasantsummer perspirationthat's my old man across the yardhe's talking to the meter readerhe's telling him the world's sad storyhow electricity is oil or uraniumand so forth I tell my grandsonrun over to your grandpa ask himto sit beside me for a... Grace Paley

• neither
• knowingly
• someone

I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows. Vladimir Nabokov

• food
• running
• brainly

My clothes are made of monosodium glutamate and hexachlorophene. My food is made of polyester, rayon and lurex. My rug lotions contain vitamins. Do my vitamins feature cleaning agents? I hope so. My brain is gimmicked by a microprocessor the size of a quark, and costing ten pee and running the whole deal. I am made of — junk, I’m just junk. Martin Amis

• life
• god
• work

God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. John Henry Newman

• love
• reading
• lovely

i love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other Sarah Vowell

• thoughts
• today
• suddenly

On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. Robert Browning

• travel
• manly
• reflection

A general silence prevailed--A silence, which was by nothing interrupted but by the loud and repeated snores of one of the Party. "What an illiterate villian must that man be! (thought I to myself) What a total want of delicate refinement must he have, who can thus shock our senses by such a brutal noise! He must I am certain be capable of every bad action! There is no crime too black for such a Character!" Thus reasoned I within myself, and doubtless such were the reflections of my fellow... Jane Austen

• ate

it's b. Etter t. O h. Ate me 4 wh. O i Am, th. An t. O l. Uv 4 w. At i'm pret. Ndng t. O b. E...... Sidney Sheldon

• best
• beach
• sleep

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach. Arthur Rimbaud

• original
• originate
• origins

I am not an originator but a transmitter. Confucius

• hard
• woman to woman
• puts

And I am a hard woman, -impossible to put off. Charlotte Bronte