Top 100 We Came Quotes
#1. We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just too much for consumers to figure out at once.
Keith Belling
#2. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.
Ronnie Corbett
#3. We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
Hugh Shelton
#4. Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town pounded out year after year like spiritual Model-T's, mostly in one color-beige. We were covenant children, so we figured we came with a cradle-to-grave, salvational warrantee.
Clare De Graaf
#5. Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation ... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
Anatole France
#6. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#7. We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. We came here to pick up chicks, not talk about dicks.
J. B. Smoove
#9. You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.
Sharon Shinn
#11. My mother, she made sure all of us were treated the same and had the same opportunity to grow and develop, so that when we left the house, we could fly on our own. And she also knew when we got out into the world, we'd treat others that we came across with that same treatment and respect.
Michael Franti
#12. The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.
G.H. Finn
#13. And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.
Alison Pill
#14. the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was made possible only by the medium of books.
Alena Graedon
#15. I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.
Kobe Bryant
#16. Power is not divided equally ,differences in any form leads to destruction of every country ...
we came to lead we r being leaded
we came to earn we r being earned
Palash
#17. ...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]
James Vescovi
#18. We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.
Erica Jong
#19. The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
Alan Price
#20. Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.
Sean Hannity
#21. 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
#22. Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.
Lev Manovich
#23. On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
Anna Howard Shaw
#24. Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.
Michael Hainey
#25. Some people think and say that we came here to suffer. Hmmmmmmm. I don't think so.
Art Hochberg
#26. Many have forgotten what we came here for,
Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
Just growin' not known' about your past ...
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.
Chuck D
#27. A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
John Millington Synge
#28. Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
Yehuda Berg
#29. The New World's sons from England's breast we drew
Such milk as bids remember whence we came,
Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
James Russell Lowell
#30. If you are so worried of things that can be fixed that you can't fix them. Just remember we came to this world without refactions.
Pedro A. Perez Raymond
#31. It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.
Douglas Adams
#32. Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
Yael Stone
#33. Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.
Janet Evanovich
#34. I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.
Chris Squire
#35. It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.
Robert Bly
#36. Life is an accumulation of experiences, leading us back to why
we came here in the first place. When we live it with PASSION,
each moment of every day becomes a celebration. Only then can
we give from the heart and raise the frequency of energy in the
world ... collectively Lee Pryke
Lee Pryke
#37. I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
Carl Sagan
#38. We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life.
Debasish Mridha
#41. My love, lie down beside me.
Let us gaze at the stars above.
Wonder with me
At how we came to be.
Hold me now and for all eternity
Lily G. Blunt
#42. The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.
Donald Rumsfeld
#43. Naomi's my girlfriend," I say aloud, just to test the words, see how they feel fucking across my lips. Ronnie flips a page in an old copy of Rollin' Strong magazine and ignores me.
"Yeah, we heard. Sixteen times since we came in here," Josh bitches.
C.M. Stunich
#44. The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
Sam Kean
#45. We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust ...
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
Rumi
#46. Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.
Debasish Mridha
#48. We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.
Trevor D. Richardson
#50. I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art.
Meredith Brooks
#51. We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
Joel Osteen
#53. Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.
Gina Greenlee
#54. How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.
Harlan Ellison
#56. You wouldn't know how to pinch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#57. You're so perfect," I murmured to him as we came up for air. "I can't believe you're all mine."
His laugh was rough and breathless. "I'm as far from perfect as a person can get, but I am all yours.
R.K. Lilley
#58. I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
Jesse L. Martin
#59. I spent years in a graduate literature program learning what makes great writing, and the only conclusion we came to was that the future of graduate literature programs was safe because nobody is ever going to agree on what makes great writing.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.
Joseph Shellim
#61. Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.
Audre Lorde
#62. The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.
Sonia Braga
#63. So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
Anita Loos
#64. I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
Hal Newhouser
#65. We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.
Michael D. O'Brien
#66. I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
Greg Graffin
#67. I got gold in one hand and mud in the other ... In the end it's the same for all of us we go out the same way we came in ... alone
Saira Viola
#68. Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
Sarah Dessen
#69. I'm a culture hero," he said. "We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up more and nobody worships us. They tell stories about us, but they tell the ones that make us look bad along with the ones where we came out fairly okay.
Neil Gaiman
#70. We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
Frederick Lenz
#71. We came here as we truly are, and when the other side shows us that truth - the part of it we pass over in silence - we're unable to come to terms with it!
Stanislaw Lem
#72. There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.
Anne Enright
#73. We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.
Ismail Haniyeh
#75. He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together.
Lucian Bane
#76. Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.
George Clarke
#77. We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life ...
L.M. Montgomery
#78. Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
Michael Chiklis
#79. We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.
Rick Perry
#80. We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda Millard
#82. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
Bill W.
#83. We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.
John F. Kerry
#84. Ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.
Padgett Powell
#85. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Freddy Fender
#86. I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
Cat Osterman
#87. My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
Dick Van Dyke
#88. Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is - how we came to go wrong.
George MacDonald
#89. We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet ...
Henry B. Eyring
#90. My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
Natasha Lyonne
#91. Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I
Orson Scott Card
#92. We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.
Rod Steiger
#93. We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#94. When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.
Pras Michel
#95. Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."
Ato Essandoh
#96. Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.
Bob Paisley
#97. She smiled smugly. We came to an agreement, the duck and I.
Cassandra Clare
#98. If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.
David McGee
#99. We came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
Margaret Mead
#100. When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.
Anne Cox Chambers
