Top 100 Come From Quotes
#1. An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."
Christopher Columbus
#2. Don't look to where you've come from. Look to where you're going.
Alison Kent
#3. The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Judy Blume
#4. I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
Ricky Martin
#5. What kind of bird do you think these feathers come from?' she asked.
'I don't know. A swan?'
'You had better stop wearing those wings, then.
A swan might fall in love with you. And as you
probably know, swans mate for life.'
'You are a funny one, Rose.
Heather O'Neill
#6. The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#7. Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Antoni Gaudi
#8. In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.
Hiroyuki Asada
#9. Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.
Richard Sibbes
#10. Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.
Bernie Sanders
#12. The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."
John F. Kerry
#13. Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
Serge Haroche
#14. Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
Chuck D
#15. I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
Albert Brooks
#16. You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.
John De Ruiter
#17. My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.
Kate Winslet
#18. As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.
Hugh Downs
#19. And she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
Laini Taylor
#20. I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#21. Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
Orhan Pamuk
#22. The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.
Raymond Carver
#23. ...trying to think of every good thing he had inside himself that he could transfer into the creature. Things like the wisdom he had gained since coming to Artime, and the experience of deepest sorrow, which can only come from deepest love.
Lisa McMann
#24. You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.
Gini Koch
#25. Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley
#26. We come into the world out of the dark. We haven't got a clue where we've come from. We've got no idea where we're going. But while we're here in the world, if we're brave enough, we flap our wings and fly.
David Almond
#27. Why do you strike?' asked Margaret. 'Striking is leaving off work till you get your own rate of wages, is it not? You must not wonder at my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#28. I really believe that God builds all the bridges, writes all the books, and delivers all the speeches. When I say God, again, I mean that source we all come from, we all are pieces of, and we all are connected to.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Fulton J. Sheen
#30. The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.
Gary Keller
#31. Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
Heinz Pagels
#32. A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
Rebecca Stead
#33. I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.
Michael Keaton
#34. I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
Brian Tee
#35. I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
Sol Michael
#36. Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.
Anne Meara
#37. He tried not to topple the tray as he hurried down the hallway to his small room. Kyle was all his for a few more hours. He let the happiness come from his feet to the top of his head.
Debra Anastasia
#38. Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J.C. Ryle
#39. Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
Michael Moriarty
#41. What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from?
Dodie Smith
#42. For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
Rashid Johnson
#43. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
Erving Goffman
#44. I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house ... so he moved.
Rodney Dangerfield
#45. I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote
first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.
Julia Glass
#46. When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.
Italo Calvino
#47. We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.
E. M. Forster
#48. At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates
#49. If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.
Patricia Churchland
#50. Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.
Suzanne Somers
#51. I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
Sam Wyly
#52. I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.
Michael Douglas
#53. We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
John Maeda
#54. All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
Natalia Kills
#55. The first encounter report had come from some weak-tea heiligenschein type charting the edges of the quantum information paradox in realities with anisotropic causalities. (Kids these days. Whatever happened to popping down to Earth to play burning bush to a roving band of shepherds?)
Ian Tregillis
#56. I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama
#57. I'm not moping. (Ewan)
Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you're frowning, and if you're frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you're moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you're happy. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#58. Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
Shereen El Feki
#59. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.
Nancy Kline
#60. Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
Anthony De Mello
#61. Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
Susan Vreeland
#62. Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
#63. I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
Rufus Wainwright
#64. My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
Craig McDean
#65. Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.
Alexandra Bracken
#66. It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from.
Alastair Reynolds
#67. I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
Enrique Iglesias
#68. I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
Brian Cox
#69. You can't blow a balloon if there's a hole on it.Life is too,if you didn't have a faith on your struggles you can't over come from it.
Saravanan
#70. I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.
Chelsie Shakespeare
#71. If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
Eleanor Clift
#72. I come from, I come from a small county Outside of Washington, D.C., Called PG County. And, me, my mom, my brother, We moved so many different places growing up, And it felt like a box. Felt like there was no getting out.
Kevin Durant
#73. Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
Brit Morin
#74. You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
Catherynne M Valente
#75. The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .
Ian Kinsler
#76. I represent the kids who come from nothing but who understand it all and love it all. That's what I represent - those are the cool kids, you know, the kids of tomorrow, because who would've known that I'd be who I am today? We are the kids of tomorrow.
ASAP Rocky
#77. Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Adams
#78. We should not exit from this world without finding out who we are and where we have come from. This is very important.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#79. I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.
Tony Kaye
#80. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
#81. In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the world's work and great things come from ordinary people with a talent which they develop.
James E. Faust
#82. Farts come from no
one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong
to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the
room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is
denial.
Paul Auster
#83. My desire to speak didn't come from shallow or materialistic intentions. I have the desire to encourage, to help, to share, to teach...and I found the vehicle that worked best for me through which to do that.
Bethanee Epifani
#84. Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.
Paulo Coelho
#85. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
Mario Batali
#86. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.
Nick Lane
#87. You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.
Art Blakey
#88. In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
Alex Haley
#89. Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
Coventry Patmore
#90. In the dim light of Twinkle's glow, their skin colors lost in a common gray, they seemed alike, brethren come from the same mold. Entreri approved of that perception, but Drizzt surely did not.
R.A. Salvatore
#91. I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.
Ruthie Henshall
#92. The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.
Andy Andrews
#93. Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth.
John Dickinson
#94. I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road ... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Amin Maalouf
#95. My right didn't come from a board of ethics. It came from God.
C.D. Reiss
#96. Much of my work has come from being lazy.
John Backus
#98. My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
Randeep Hooda
#99. I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
Ciaran Hinds
#100. There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.
Roger Ebert
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