Where You From Quotes

#1. Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

DMX

#2. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

Kendrick Lamar

#3. No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

Method Man

#4. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#5. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. 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

#7. Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."
My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look.
Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right.
"It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven."
"Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. He brushed his lips against hers. "I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever." Celaena

Sarah J. Maas

#9. I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Mads Mikkelsen

#10. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Wallace Stegner

#11. Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.

Antonio Di Benedetto

#12. 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

#13. PS ... ... confused from where you should start planning ... ... . !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are.

Sameh Elsayed

#14. Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Enya

#15. It's too hard to explain. I can't say why I love the book. I just do. You don't pick the books you fall in love with any more than you pick the people you fall in love with. It just happens, and when it happens, you know. Who's to say where love comes from?

Sarah Combs

#16. L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.

Ashley Jensen

#17. In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Lee Child

#18. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Bob Goff

#19. Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn't he the one who knows it's hopeless, but keeps trying anyway?

Confucius

#20. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Allen

#21. Here," he said,holding out a dark mink coat. "Thought you might be cold."
"Where did you-"
"I yoinked it off a broad coming home from the market back there.Don't worry,she had enough natural padding already."
"Bill!"
"Hey,you needed it!" He shrugged. "Wear it in good health.

Lauren Kate

#22. See and feel who you are. Love like you have never loved before. The practial point is to live and enjoy from where you are. You can feel every movement because you are not here. The logic is only important to the body-mind.

Robert Young

#23. What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you

Tony Benn

#24. You can learn a lot about a person by where they are from and where they have chosen to be."

"You'll never know what could have been if it never was.

Sarah Sloat

#25. You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Plato

#26. I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

Noreena Hertz

#27. Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Jody Hill

#28. I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#29. I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Drew Barrymore

#30. I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.

Prince Royce

#31. There are some things you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Julie Bowe

#32. The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going.

Terry Pratchett

#33. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.

Brit Bennett

#34. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

Coco J. Ginger

#35. Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.

Sean Bean

#36. Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Sara Gruen

#37. I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.

Antonio McDyess

#38. You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

Prefuse 73

#39. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

#40. Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Helen Mirren

#41. There are other good guys. You said so. Yes.
So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.

Cormac McCarthy

#42. It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

Jim Gaffigan

#43. From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.

Iyanla Vanzant

#44. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

Scott Jurek

#45. As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

Dexter Fletcher

#46. I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

Ashley Monroe

#47. 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

#48. Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

Armand Nassery

#49. Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

Grimes

#50. Hawai'i is the only place in the fifty states where you can see the stars of the entire northern and southern hemispheres. Here, stars that can't be seen from the mainland are visible, along with stars that aren't visible from Australia.

John Richard Stephens

#51. We might not get to choose who we're born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.

Reilyn J. Hardy

#52. I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.

Ronald D. Moore

#53. Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.

Jessica Raine

#54. If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.

Sue Monk Kidd

#55. 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

#56. What's with the strange clothes?"
I smile through my labored breath, pleased to be making progress. "Where I'm from, you'd be the one dressed strangely."
Thank goodness, she slows a bit. "And what planet is that again?"
"Er. Canada.

Cyn Balog

#57. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#58. There are so many paths in life. Some we choose, and some are chosen for us. We walk our paths without looking down and that's the life we lead. The only things you'll get from guessing where another path would have gone are questions you can't answer and heartache you can't ever soothe.

Abigail Roux

#59. At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

George Hickenlooper

#60. It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ...

Carol Emshwiller

#61. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Bill Gates

#62. There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.

Wladimir Klitschko

#63. Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

Cheech Marin

#64. He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams come true. But all I can offer is myself, and I'm not going anywhere.

Lisa Kessler

#65. When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Dave Eggers

#66. You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it's coming from.

Teddy Thompson

#67. Like memories in cold decay,
Transmissions echoing away,
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky..

Linkin Park

#68. Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays ... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

#69. Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going.

Chloe Thurlow

#70. I thought to myself that a conversation was a strange thing that could take you almost anywhere. Often you were left stranded miles from where you had started, with no idea about how to get back.

Sophie Hannah

#71. Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#72. Where did you get in from?" she asked. "The desert."
"What do you do in the desert?"
"Get hot.

Nina Lane

#73. We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing.

J.D. Robb

#74. 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

#75. I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

Tyler Perry

#76. There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#77. I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Donald Hall

#78. But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud ...

Anna Akhmatova

#79. You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

Mohsin Hamid

#80. When you want to know how and why people do the things they do, the best people to learn from are the doers themselves, and the best place to learn is where the doing gets done.

Jan Chipchase

#81. There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

Stanley Tucci

#82. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

#83. Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#84. If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from

Jason Aites

#85. You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

Ryan Gosling

#86. It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

Damien Chazelle

#87. You know you've spent a lot of time writing fiction when you meet a new person and instead of asking them about what they do, or where they're from, you ask "what's your backstory?

David Filmore

#88. Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

George Harrison

#89. Some of those things come out and you don't know where they came from - somebody's leaking totally false information. They follow you for years and you have to be like, "I don't know anything about that."

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#90. -Wherever you go, there you are! You can't run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won't find happiness anywhere, unless it's already there in your heart, and therefore you have carried it with you.

Andrew James Pritchard

#91. One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Samuelsson

#92. When you move forward in life or move on with life..
Moving on from people is the most difficult and painful..
But probably the most 'necessary'..
One may have to leave behind many who's, what's, when's, where's and why's..
Imperative to maintaining forward momentum in life..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#93. I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Maya Angelou

#94. Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child.

Christina Lauren

#95. Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

Alexander Stille

#96. Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction.

Steve Maraboli

#97. Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

Lewis Carroll

#98. At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#99. To time travel, you must move from where you are, or just close your eyes.

Steven Cuoco

#100. Life is a journey where people travel through each other's memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from yourself

S.E. Sever