Quotes About Being Welcomed

#1. I was sometimes irritated by the unrelenting inquisitiveness and criticism, but there was no shortage of help or advice or just someone to talk to if I needed it. It was hard to imagine a foreigner descending on an English community and being welcomed with such immediate acceptance and hospitality.

John Mole

#2. Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask?

M. Scott Peck

#3. Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.

Patrick Labyorteaux

#4. When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

Seamus Heaney

#5. Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.

David Tennant

#6. [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

Nancy Astor

#7. Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

Annalee Newitz

#8. 'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

Greg Van Eekhout

#9. I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

Chuck Norris

#10. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Sylvia Plath

#11. And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

Pablo Neruda

#12. In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

J. August Richards

#13. Relax, Skeeve! This'll be easy, Skeeve! Trust me, Skeeve!' Boy Aahz, when you miss a call you don't do it small, do you?"
"Shut up, kid!

Robert Asprin

#14. It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud.

Tom Parker Bowles

#15. It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.

Chang-rae Lee

#16. Tereza realized, she positively enjoyed being welcome into the day by Karenin. Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased
(..describing how Karenin, Tereza's pet dog welcomed each day)

Milan Kundera

#17. If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.

Calvin Johnson

#18. The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

Ray Kroc

#19. Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.

Walter Dean Myers

#20. With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle.

Jamie McGuire

#21. I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

Bert Campaneris

#22. I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

J. Michael Straczynski

#23. What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

Naomie Harris

#24. True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.

Ramona Koval

#25. The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

Ina Garten

#26. Even the best of mirrors can show only one side of things.
old japanese quote.

Mkdeville

#27. Despite hating mobs and technically being a nobleman, Napoleon welcomed the Revolution. At least in its early stages it accorded well with the Enlightenment ideals he had ingested from his reading of Rousseau and Voltaire.

Andrew Roberts