Top 1200 Where We Came Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

When it came to country, I loved the stories.

You must never forget where you came from.

If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.

I didn't come to play. I came to win.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

When I came into this industry, was there racism? Yes.

I came out when I was like 17.

Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

I was a redhead when I first came to America.

John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

My best training came from my father.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

I've never strayed from who I am or where I came from.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

I came into the world at the right time.

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

I came to the UFC to make history.

Joy came always after pain.

I came up from a difficult background.

I came alive when I started loving you.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

What I had to do always came before what I wanted to do.

Someone came too sooner.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

When I came to Mumbai from Indore, I knew nobody.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

Barrabas came to us by the sea.

You can just never forget where you came from.

Dancing came easy to me.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

He made all countries where he came his own.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

I had a dream. And it came true.

In the human race today, you came last.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

But with morning cool repentance came.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

It was the sinner that Christ came to help.

I was 15 years old when I came out.