Told Quotes

Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
- George Eliot

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed.
I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly.
He cut the legs off the bed.
- Lou Brock

I've told my children that when I die,
to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated.
For me, death is a graduation.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument.
He told me to knock myself out.
- Jay London

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and
I told him of course he could,
so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
- Eric Morecambe

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life.
My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
- Chief Joseph

In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours,
I must look her straight in the eyes.
- Prince Charles

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a
good defense cannot beat a better offense.'
In other words a good offense wins.
- Dan Quayle

John Candy knew he was going to die.
He told me on his 40th birthday.
He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
- Maureen O'Hara

The best money advice ever given me was from my father.
When I was a little girl, he told me,
'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
- Dinah Shore

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
- Sandra Bullock

It was my father who taught me to value myself.
He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that
I was the most precious thing in his life.
- Dawn French

I have never been a material girl.
My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
- Imelda Marcos

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art,
which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby
since I hadn't made money with it.
- Laurie Anderson

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.
It's not.
Mine had me trained in two days.
- Bill Dana

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow

I want to have children, but my friends scare me.
One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours.
I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
- Rita Rudner

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet,
so he gave me pep pills.
Know what happened? I ate faster.
- Joe E. Lewis

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened
told by people who weren't there.
- George Santayana

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.
Unless there are three other people.
- Orson Welles

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation,
he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
- Henny Youngman

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy -
but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's,
I wanted to kill him.
- Michael J. Fox

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth,
southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road -
with an incredible garden,
so I went and had a look.
I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'
- Susannah York

I broke down on Thursday, Nov.
3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth.
It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out,
I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.
- Susan Smith

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story,
and I don't give a thought to influences or method
or any other writerly concerns.
- Anne Tyler

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win.
I had gotten the final polling numbers.
He had a comfortable lead.
He was not going to lose.
- Paul Begala

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me.
He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by
me and really bailed me out.
- Tim Robbins

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had
proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed
weapons of mass destruction.
I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
- Renee Zellweger

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men.
I have told unto them the Epic of Kings,
and the Epic of Kings is come to a close,
and the tale of their deeds is ended.
- Ferdowsi

I am only 8 years old, I told myself.
No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone.
It's not possible.
- Roald Dahl

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
- Cornelia Funke

I still can't really believe it.
They just told us, 'Hey, you're doing great.
Keep it up.'
- Lynndie England

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
- Charles Dickens

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
- Lloyd Alexander

And I know when I was younger, and still,
I always marvel at what I feel is different from what
I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
- Andrew McCarthy

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major,
and then go on and do something else.
- Russel Honore

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live,
I wouldn't brood.
I'd type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov

My wife is always trying to get rid of me.
The other day she told me to put the garbage out.
I said to her I already did.
She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
- Rodney Dangerfield

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse.
You are just what you are, aren't you?
- Jeremy Paxman

I began composing works which were imitative of the
music I was being told about.
I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
- Henry Flynt

Who told you I was a musician?
- Leon Redbone

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management
program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the
newsroom for union wages,
about fifty dollars a week.
- Andrea Mitchell

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves
be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door,
simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
- Robert Benchley

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark.
But when we got here, that fell through.
So we were out here with no job, no furniture,
no food.
- Danny Bonaduce

Not only is your story worth telling,
but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
- Gloria Naylor

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks,
that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with
the period of unemployment as well as they deal with
the period of employment.
- Claudia Black

The stories have been told so often by those of us
who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,
almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.
- William L. Jenkins

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about
sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way,
I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
- Anita Hill

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
- Anne Robinson

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk
tales being a woman's domain,
considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
- Alice Hoffman

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong.
No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Shame, shame, shame.
How many times have I told you not to be frightened?
Have I not told you God looks after all his children?
- Willis Goldbeck

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told
her I wanted to be a reporter.
- Jessica Savitch

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.
- Matt Nagle

A week before shooting, they told me,
You don't have the part, yet.
We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act.
Either that or we break your legs.
- Kieran Culkin

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid.
If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up,
I would have laughed in your face.
- Caleb Carr

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story
about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
- Dick Bruna

I can't remember ever being told how to ride.
- Gordon Richards

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job.
My wife told me.
- Howard Nemerov

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone,
the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
- Louis Kronenberger

I was told in high school that the last game during
your senior year stays with you forever,
which is true.
- Jim Otto

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress,
and that stuck in my memory.
I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
- Jacqueline Bisset

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