Top 100 Where I Came From Quotes
#1. Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
Bubba Smith
#2. I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.
Bernard Hopkins
#3. Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
Bill Bryson
#4. I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#5. When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#6. My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.
Sandra Lee
#7. I am only doing this because I was asked. They tell me that, sometime in the future, I will thank them for pushing me this way. They say that one day, when all this is over, I will come to terms with who I am and where I came from. Not gonna happen.
Leigh Hershkovich
#8. I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from,
Marshall Faulk
#9. Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.
Mitch Horowitz
#10. I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#11. In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
Billy Bush
#12. I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.
Terrell Owens
#13. In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.
Ernest Gaines
#14. I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.
Isaac Stern
#15. I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
Howard Schultz
#16. I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.
Anna Kournikova
#18. I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.
Mary Steenburgen
#19. My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.
Roselyn Sanchez
#20. I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.
Shola Lynch
#21. If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.
Nick Diaz
#22. I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.
Thomas Hearns
#23. Do you ever go back?"
Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.
Jodi Picoult
#24. I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.
Lindsey Graham
#25. I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
Gabby Douglas
#26. Knowing where I came from didn't change who I was.
Kiersten White
#27. I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.
Edgerrin James
#28. I know where I came from - but where did all you zombies come from?
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt
#30. Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts
#31. I don't think there's a limit as long as I keep my head right, don't get above myself, work hard and remember where I came from.
Daunte Culpepper
#32. I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.
Anthony Carmona
#33. But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.
Aisha Tyler
#34. where I came from. I know that I don't want to die,
Veronica Roth
#35. But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
Benjamin Carson
#36. I don't think it matters where I came from any more.
David Bailey
#37. Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.
Jacque Jones
#38. I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.
Andie MacDowell
#39. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.
Katy Perry
#40. I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
Scott Bakula
#41. Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
Shania Twain
#42. I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.
Jerry Leiber
#43. I'm not defined by where I came from.
Katy Perry
#44. The Ideal
This is where I came from.
I passed this way.
This should not be shameful
Or hard to say.
A self is a self.
It is not a screen.
A person should respect
What he has been.
This is my past
Which I shall not discard.
This is the ideal.
This is hard.
James Fenton
#46. It was just the lightest dusting, and another person might have mistaken it for something else. But I knew where I came from. No matter where I was, or what got me there, I would always feel at home when I touched sand.
Sarah Dessen
#47. For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
Nick Tosches
#48. So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.
Slash
#49. Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.
Joe Namath
#50. I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
Dean Koontz
#51. My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
Nora Roberts
#52. It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#53. If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.
Anne F. Beiler
#54. I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#56. The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.
Derrick Rose
#57. Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#58. If he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now
he knew how well done I liked my steak, knew the color of my toothbrush, the expression I made when I realized I'd forgotten to roll up my car window before it rained.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#59. When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#60. At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.
Warsan Shire
#61. I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
James Brown
#62. I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all.
Albert Hofmann
#63. Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?
Paulo Coelho
#64. No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there.
Carlos Wallace
#65. No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale
#66. Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy
#67. There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Terry Teachout
#68. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#69. Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
Jacinda Barrett
#70. I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.
John Hunter
#71. Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.
James Alison
#72. Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.
Hope Solo
#73. A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."
Mary Ellen W. Smoot
#75. Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.
Karen White
#76. Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.
Tracy Morgan
#77. I had no idea that people thought Jews had horns. Where I came from, Jews had good grades and BMWs.
Sloane Crosley
#78. It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Dan Quayle
#79. This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
Gregory Benford
#80. I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis
#81. For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.
Beyonce Knowles
#82. Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#83. Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
Percy Sledge
#84. I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.
Romario
#85. I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.
Howard Gordon
#86. So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.
Carrie Underwood
#88. A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.
Travis Tritt
#89. There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.
Marshall Faulk
#90. I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.
Eva Longoria
#91. When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.
Kristopher Belman
#92. I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that."
"I think I'll stay right where I am, thank you," I said. "And you, you stay where you are, or I'll ... I don't know what I'll do, but it will really hurt. You, I mean.
Molly Harper
#93. I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
Antoine Fuqua
#94. I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#95. Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from - this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.
Lauren Oliver
#96. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
Lawrence Wright
#97. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.
Tinsel Korey
#98. As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#99. I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.
Leslie Mann
#100. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
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