Came Quotes

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going. — Condoleezza Rice

martin learnt quickly to take every day as it came and never expect one day to be the same as the last — Benjamin Zephaniah

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

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them. — George W. Bush

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I want my family to resemble the family I came from. — Katherine Heigl

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. — Richard Stark

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from. — John Mayer

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write. — James Salter

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me. — Asghar Farhadi

Alone is how our story starts. But then I came along and changed all that. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. — Lauren Willig

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here. — Katrina Kaif

At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals. — P.G. Wodehouse

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected. — Adepero Oduye

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman - the moment you entered the world could seal your fate. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. — Harrison Birtwistle

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more? — Brett Dennen

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you. — Drake

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest. — Dominique Wilkins

I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess. — Julia Mancuso

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous. — Barry Manilow

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! — Brian Jacques

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself. — Craig Ferguson

Still, if there was anything, it came about by no one else's power save the divine will. Everything is from God. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And her taste in men should be applauded until the cows came home and tap-danced on the front lawn.' (Taryn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box. — Barry McGuigan

My hands were useless, his arms locked around me, his head came down on a slant and his mouth hit mine. — Kristen Ashley

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us. — J.C. Ryle

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Jairo's response came immediately. 'Yippee! Don't bring your neighbors. Gag.' Doug — Darien Cox

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym. — Joe Gold

Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever. — Celeste Bradley

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing. — Adam Schlesinger

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan. — Prince Royce

After all, none of us came here to live an ordinary life. Whether we believe it or not, we are all destined for greatness. — Thea Euryphaessa

Tell me where it is gone
then I will tell you where it came from. — Hasan Of Basra

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. — Eminem

The love of my life came not
As love unto others is cast;
For mine was a secret wound--
But the wound grew a pearl, at last. — Edith Matilda Thomas

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not. — Henry Blodget

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it. — Albert Einstein

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before — Jhumpa Lahiri

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it. — Aaron Tveit

I see Kayla dragged you into this."
I smiled at him. "No, sir, I just came to borrow a cup of sugar."
"Heh. — Ilona Andrews

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. — James Russell Lowell

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence. — Amber Heard

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true. — Mark Twain

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. — Joseph Heller

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start. — Nicos Anastasiades

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater. — Al-Shafi'i

I came to believe in a power much higher than I — Johnny Cash

Her mouth was soft and moist, and she came to me like a dachshund jumping into your lap. — Charles Williams

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing. — Marie Windsor

I came up with a good idea ... see-through skin. — Karl Pilkington

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington. — Daniel H. Hill

I'm super sorry I slept so long. You should've nudged me or something.
Several somethings came to mind. — Robin Bielman

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled.
All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily. — Peter Grimwade

One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I thought he was a ballet dancer or something. — Harry Pearson

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from. — Harmony Korine

Everybody wonders why he disappeared. I wonder why he came back. — David Levithan

She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room. — P.G. Wodehouse

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife. — Mike Royer

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came. — Elvis Presley

Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew. — Sarah Winman

I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new. — Nigel Lythgoe

You went away a little boy in a man's body and you came back the same way, except the man got his hair processed. — Stephen King

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. — Niall Ferguson

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going. — Sara Marie Hogg

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.' — Alexandra Cassavetes

Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding. — Joyce Meyer

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. — Warren Zevon

When they came together, Michael apologized. — Markus Zusak

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. — Brian Andreas

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. — Georg Brandes

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan

Vishnu came in the form of Hitler to be an inspiration for the Kalki to come. — Kedar Joshi

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief. — Diego Maradona

She came into the room, carrying a kerosene lantern this time, and Steven couldn't help cringing when he thought of the damage that could do. But — Linda Lael Miller

The absorbed, disapproving regard of the middle-aged woman for her own face disappeared as he came up. ('The Snow Heart') — Elspeth Davie

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael. — Cynthia Payne

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too. — Noel Alumit

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it. — Leighton Ford

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me. — Donna Brazile

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? — Garth Risk Hallberg

And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale

If I came to you and we walked the path together, would I be your guide, or would you be mine? — Roxanne Packard

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell

I was a baby when I came into the world
otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person. — Frank Wedekind

we came naked into the world and we will exit naked. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way. — Moses Malone

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country. — Kym Whitley