We Were Quotes

#1. I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

Philippa Gregory

#2. My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

Dan Fogler

#3. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Benjamin Booker

#4. I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

Winona Ryder

#5. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. - Romans 5:8

Gary Chapman

#7. Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Barack Obama

#8. We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

David Byrne

#10. I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#11. That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.

Jose Saramago

#12. We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

Pete Rose

#13. I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet.

Anthony Kiedis

#14. all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die.

John Fante

#15. God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

John Calvin

#16. At first we were all turned into animals. The very word "Chernobyl" is like a signal. Everyone turns their head to look at you. He's from there! That

Svetlana Alexievich

#17. We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

Ernest Cline

#18. Our kiss was electric and soft,
and tentative and certain,
terrifying and exactly right.
I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.
We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.
We already do.

E. Lockhart

#19. I didn't just live her. I love her. I've loved her since we were kids.

Colleen Hoover

#20. There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

Susan Estrich

#21. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

#22. If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Mark Twain

#23. We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

Nan Hayworth

#24. Shopping was great." A week later, it was finally Christmas Eve. We were hosting Christmas this year, and I'd spent the week trying to

Lacey Silks

#25. And we were flown to a rest camp in France, where we were fed chocolate malted milkshakes and other rich foods until we were all covered with baby fat. Then we were sent home, and I married a pretty girl who was covered with baby fat, too. And we had babies.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

Jon Stewart

#27. We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more ...

Melissa Aragon

#28. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

Thomm Quackenbush

#29. Emma: I want to be parabatai again. The way we were before.
Jules: We'll always be parabatai, Emma. It's for life.
Emma: It's been weird ever since we - ever since I started dating Mark.

Cassandra Clare

#30. Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Howie Mandel

#32. I've been checking you out since we were freshmen."
"Why??"
"Do you even have to ask?" I laugh as a string of colorful handkerchiefs falls into my hand when I pull it from his pocket.

Cassie Mae

#33. Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.

Robert M. Drake

#34. I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.

Walter Cronkite

#35. We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

Jerry Garcia

#36. Yes, she wanted to make us undone that night, when we were young, innocent, trusting, having known only the sweetest part of living. She wanted to wither our souls and shrivel us small and dry, perhaps never to feel pride again.
But she didn't know us.

V.C. Andrews

#37. I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Neil Armstrong

#38. I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

Jeff Miller

#39. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

Liane Moriarty

#40. Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Jodi Picoult

#41. It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#42. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.

Tiffany Madison

#43. We were the Spice Boys.

George Harrison

#44. We see the world and our words in one impression, as if we're looking at a forest through a green filter. We can't see what's really green and what's not. If we were to walk around with the filter in our eye long enough, we'd forget it was there, and life would just be green.

Dave Logan

#45. In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

Michio Kaku

#46. When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

Jared Padalecki

#47. I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

Lionel Shriver

#48. We had some memorable times, on those long, hot summer nights, along the shores of the mighty Rideau; but we were by no means the first to do so.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#49. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

Sitting Bull

#50. Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

Lena Horne

#51. And these two things, the love of God and Christ's satisfaction, had to and could go hand in hand because we were simultaneously the object of his love as his creatures and the object of his wrath as sinners.

Herman Bavinck

#52. I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.

Ray Bradbury

#53. For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life.

Alice McDermott

#54. I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hopkins

#55. We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

Gayle Forman

#56. When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

Roy Wood

#57. Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or whee we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Thomas Sowell

#58. The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

Yoko Ono

#59. There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

John Shelby Spong

#60. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

Kether Donohue

#61. People speculated that signing Raja was an insurance policy. That is not the case. We signed Raja Bell because we thought we were greatly improving our team, the makeup of the organization.

Bryan Colangelo

#62. The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.

William James

#63. We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Ivor Novello

#64. We had no idea it would be the last time we would ever be able to walk around L.A. without feeling like we were in a fishbowl, isolated and on display.

Duff McKagan

#65. It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

Robert Hayden

#66. Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

Nicolas Nabokov

#67. Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#68. I was never meant to save a soul, and no one was purposed as a project. We were meant to be comrades, mutually passing around whatever we have to offer.

Shannan Martin

#69. So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed ...

Rachel Vincent

#70. We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

Beth Moore

#71. Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Bruce Springsteen

#72. I always thought we were indefeatable. Like nothing could stop us. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I still do.

Josiah Morgan

#73. Blake turned to Livia. We were never formally introduced. When your father sees me at the train station from his patrol car, he often stops by later in the day with a bagged meal that he refuses to let me turn down. You, Livia, inherit your generous nature from him.

Debra Anastasia

#74. I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

Matisyahu

#75. We were given our lives to live to the fullest of our ability; come out of that dark and musty hole and begin to live.

Barbara Hart

#76. First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Mitchell Reiss

#77. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Marge Piercy

#78. At the end of things, The Blessed will say, "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven." And the lost will say, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.

C.S. Lewis

#79. We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.

Chuck Comeau

#80. We were once again wrapped in our silence, which used to be so comforting. On the inside, a storm was swirling, uncovering memories and feelings I'd buried over two years ago.

Rebecca Donovan

#81. I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

Adam Yauch

#82. My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Lorna Luft

#83. Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

Ozzy Osbourne

#84. For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

Ben Aaronovitch

#85. Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nathan Fillion

#86. Luke laughed, We were about to go rescue you from your captors. Pity you had to turn up so soon. I was hoping to storm the garrison gates and sally forth on horseback to carry you to safety.

Nicole Sager

#87. The Dean leaned toward an ear.
"I was saying," he said loudly, "that we didn't know the meaning of the word 'sex' when we were young."
"That's true. That's very true," said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. "Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?

Terry Pratchett

#88. Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

#89. The movement that has long called itself "evangelical" is in fact better labeled "soterian." That is, we have thought we were talking about "the gospel" when in fact we were concentrating on "salvation.

Scot McKnight

#90. The anger I'd had, everything, was gone, and kissing her reminded me, again, that she was right. We were connected to each other. She was the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins; she was my whole life.

J.J. McAvoy

#91. I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

Mel Brooks

#92. You and I believed the gospel, not because we were wiser or more righteous than anyone else but because God graciously intervened, opening our hearts to head His Word and believe.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#93. If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

Wolfgang Schauble

#94. We were meant for more than a safe ride when God placed us here. Any part of this life that offers more, requires more, or asks more of us than we are used to is an opportunity to grow more, dream more, and be more than we are now.

Mark Batterson

#95. Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Walter Savage Landor

#96. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

Debbie Ford

#97. When we were kids I begged cupid to come and shoot me.

Delano Johnson

#98. I've waited so very long for this. For you. For someone as beautiful, both inside and out, as you, my beloved Brianna. Do you not see? 'Tis no accident that you're here. We were destined through time, through eternity, to meet. To love.

Ruth Ryan Langan

#99. I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

Donald Miller

#100. Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night.

Katie McGarry