Come From Quotes

#1. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Candice Millard

#2. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#3. I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

#4. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.

Mike Yankoski

#5. People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

Lizz Wright

#6. Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick ... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

Rodrigo Rato

#7. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

Joseph De Maistre

#8. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

Don DeLillo

#9. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

Kym Whitley

#11. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

Charlotte Bronte

#12. When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

Kevin A. Ford

#13. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

#15. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.

Yongsoo Park

#16. When the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Montesquieu

#17. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Bob Dylan

#18. If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Graham Joyce

#19. My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

Paul Ryan

#20. I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry?
Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that?
So many daughters have come home wet lately.

Jeanne Birdsall

#21. I don't care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like we'd just come from the beach and that our bodies were glistening. Say we got no hair on our chests. Anything so the girls will like us.

Nathan Followill

#22. I come from a football family which has really helped.

Frank Lampard

#23. Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

Thomas S. Monson

#24. The end has to come from within.

Richard Bowes

#25. During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.

Margaret Thatcher

#26. It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Martin Henderson

#27. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine

Gautama Buddha

#28. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Margaret Mead

#29. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.

Johnny Depp

#30. I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

Blair Underwood

#31. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

#32. Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Marianne Williamson

#33. Books come from within.

Kevin Henkes

#34. Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.

Gay Talese

#35. I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

George Blake

#36. We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs ... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

Vance Havner

#37. I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Mads Mikkelsen

#38. All abilities come from one mind

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#39. The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even a little behind us, they would lack the technological capability to communicate with us at all. So the most likely signal would come from a civilization much more advanced.

Carl Sagan

#40. To allow someone to come into your heart-house, you have to open the door. Most doors open from the inside.

Annette Vaillancourt

#41. Promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours

Arthur Conan Doyle

#42. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Katherine Center

#43. Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation?

Alfie Kohn

#44. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.

Stan D. Jensen

#45. Orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Mary Parker Follett

#46. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

Derrick Rose

#47. Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

Martin Lel

#48. Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

W. H. Auden

#50. I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Sidney Poitier

#51. To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Sylvain Tesson

#52. I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

Hugh Jackman

#53. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

Penelope Douglas

#54. The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

Catherine Crier

#55. He downed the rest of his drink and poured himself another from the bottle of whisky room service had brought up: Jameson. The only good thing ever to come out of Ireland.

Jo Nesbo

#56. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#57. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Ray Bradbury

#58. It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#59. I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Ashthon Jones

#60. Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window.

David Sedaris

#61. Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.

Ina Caro

#62. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.

C.S. Forester

#63. Our students didn't used to come from such damaged families," Louis mused. "It's true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.

Paul Russell

#64. You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master

Sunday Adelaja

#65. The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

Pat Oliphant

#66. Why do you come here?"
"I promised."
"I release you from your promise!"
"It wasn't you I promised," the angel said quietly.

Elizabeth Knox

#67. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#68. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Allen

#69. Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. That

Barack Obama

#70. All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16

Felix Wantang

#71. Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Michael Moore

#72. The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.

J.M. Darhower

#73. There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

Thucydides

#74. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

Diego Klattenhoff

#75. Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.

Anthony Quinn

#76. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.

Denis Leary

#77. I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Eric Bana

#78. The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

Athol Fugard

#79. Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven ... My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

Julian Simon

#80. You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Plato

#81. Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Pico Iyer

#82. We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

Robert E.Lee

#83. And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

Margaret Stohl

#84. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams

#85. Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Ross Perot

#86. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#87. Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Mickey Rourke

#88. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!

Benjamin

#89. Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

Barack Obama

#90. The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

Bob Shacochis

#91. The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed to drive the worst of the chill away and the hot tea did the rest, as I lay and read further into the life of the young woman in the bravado coat.

Jane Lovering

#92. I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

Lee DeWyze

#93. I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

Maggie Wheeler

#94. I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Doug Liman

#95. I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Drew Barrymore

#96. The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain

#97. Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

Jamie Dornan

#98. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.

Elizabeth Heiter

#99. Not all good things come from good people.

Toba Beta

#100. At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

Henrik Fisker