You Came Quotes

#1. You see ... it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Norton Juster

#2. Violet smiled up at Nikolai. "I'm so very glad you came to Riversleigh."
Nikolai looked serious as he thought for a moment. "You know what, myshka? I'm very glad too. The old world and the old ways are dying. I think the new world and the new ways are filled with endless possibilities.

Belinda Murrell

#3. Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

Suzanne Collins

#4. Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.

Ralph Smart

#5. This is Nathan's mother," I said, wiping my eyes with the edge of Ainsley's blanket. "Yes, we've met," Eloise said. "You came to Nathan's wake." Daniel nodded. "Congratulations on your beautiful daughter. Kate..." She turned to me. "It was good to see you, deah.

Kristan Higgins

#6. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

Jojo Moyes

#7. The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

Carol Moseley Braun

#8. Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

Jason Alexander

#9. Well it totally freaks them out, what do you think? And I just about die of the embarrassment. I don't ever know what to say. What do you say if you just shouted "Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!" right when you came?

David Foster Wallace

#10. I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.

Paul Solomon

#11. Whatever path bought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not know it now.
So, please open your ears and listen.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you.

Ilchi Lee

#12. I told him that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

Ann Brashares

#13. It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

Dallas Roberts

#14. Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I'm sick of feeling guilty for not ripping my clothes off and spreading my legs to prove I love you.

Simone Elkeles

#15. Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?
You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#16. I'm not your destiny, or the Devil either!' I said. 'Look at you! Came to kill evil with your bare hands, and now away you go with no more glory than a man sideswiped by a Greyhound bus! And that's all the glory you deserve!' I said. 'That's all that any man at war with pure evil deserves.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!

Bryce Harper

#18. In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Condoleezza Rice

#19. You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

Marilynne Robinson

#20. Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'

Henry Rollins

#21. I never told you this enough- it's a failing between all men, I think, but too often of fathers to their sons- I love you. When you came into the world, you brought me a new purpose and a new drive. Suddenly , I was not just a parent, I was a guardian too.

Joseph D'Lacey

#22. You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.

Dennis Lehane

#23. You came and you left and I'm just looking to quick dry cement it, press and bend it, fold it up and tuck it away for safe keeping. I know that it's reaching but I just want to leave your name on a page somewhere and never need to come back to it.

Trista Mateer

#24. Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored!

Deyth Banger

#25. If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

Elvis Presley

#26. What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

Ken Ham

#27. Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

#28. Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something."
Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?

Cate Tiernan

#29. I was dying when you came.

Victor Hugo

#30. Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen
right?

Jack LaLanne

#31. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you - here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

#32. Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Tom Hodgkinson

#33. Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.

Barry White

#34. I promised myself that if you came home I wouldn't be afraid to tell you how I felt. But I'm still afraid. Because I can't make you love me back.

Amy Harmon

#35. They count that as your birthday
the day your mother gets up."
"Not the day you were born?"
Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

#37. You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now - inside your daddy's house - is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me?

Joyce Carol Oates

#39. At least he waited until you came to handcuff us.

Bella Jeanisse

#40. A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

Jedediah Berry

#41. Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way ... to get lost ... to forget where you came in.

Hattori Hanzo

#42. And what you thought you came for
is only a shell, a husk of meaning
from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
if at all. Either you had no purpose
or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfillment.

T. S. Eliot

#43. Where did you live before you came here?" I asked.
"The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#44. I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.

Barbara Kingsolver

#45. WE LIVE out the love of God when we care for those he brings into our lives. Have you ever been surprised by who you came to love, because they became yours in some way?

Shauna Niequist

#46. When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

Woody Allen

#47. There are lesbians, God knows ... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York ... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

Audre Lorde

#48. It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

Jamie Farr

#49. This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.

Neale Donald Walsch

#50. Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

Barack Obama

#51. It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

Oprah Winfrey

#52. C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all I wanted was you. All I thought about was you. Your smile, your laugh, your lips, and your eyes seemed to hold me captive."


~Tru~

J.L. Clayton

#53. The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Arthur Miller

#54. That hurts me deep in my soul, Danika. I wouldn't do that to you. I'd make sure you came, first and last. I'd go down on you every time, if that's what you like. I'd lick-

R.K. Lilley

#55. You came for me," she whispered.
His hand wound through her hair, cradling her. "I will always come for you," he said.

Meredith Duran

#56. Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

Brett Dennen

#57. Whatever the path that brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not realize it now.
Therefore,please open your ears.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.

Ilchi Lee

#58. If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

Bill Maher

#59. If you'd only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I was just perfecting a little song about a wild woman of Gotham, who made love to young men and then shot 'em - till

Leslie Charteris

#60. We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given.

Ryan Holiday

#61. I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky."
"Some days I feel like I did." I say.

Lauren DeStefano

#62. If you want easy, you came to the wrong man. I don't do easy. I do worth-it.

Anonymous

#63. You came suddenly and stole three things from me. The patience from my heart, the colour from my face and the sleep from my eyes.

Rumi

#64. Jesus, Your Word says that You came "to proclaim liberty to the captives" and "to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18).

Stormie O'martian

#65. The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.

Pico Iyer

#66. You leave your neighborhood but you never want to forget where you came from," he says. "I have the best of best worlds. I'm street smart and book smart. You put that together in an African-American male and that's dangerous.

Anonymous

#67. Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

Kimberly Johnson

#68. A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.

Danny Meyer

#69. It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!"

Ricky Gervais

#70. I'm glad you came over Dev. Things have been pretty shitty lately."
"Not the same as always?"
"Guess I don't even know anymore.

Amy Spalding

#71. In the human race today, you came last.

Spike Milligan

#72. They said no future forget it
You came from the wrong side of town
I said don't listen don't let it
Let it bring you down
Make you wear a frown

Dieter Bohlen

#73. A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?

Tom Holt

#74. I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

Martha N. Beck

#75. Faith, an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold to-that I loved you, and you loved me.

Cassandra Clare

#76. unreasonable.' She felt like saying it was barking mad but restrained herself. 'Aahh, not quite ready yet. Not quite evolved enough. But you're getting there, Judith. You have taken the first tentative steps. The fact that you came to me proves that. You'll be back.' Sheeva jumped up from the

Patricia Scanlan

#77. You came from love, to live in love, to give away love, and to become love.

Debasish Mridha

#78. So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.

Pleasefindthis

#79. When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Amy Lowell

#80. We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

James Dashner

#81. The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Robert Creeley

#82. Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather.
Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#83. How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

Tony Earley

#84. Dee loves it here. Before you came, she spent most of her days here."
To Daemon, my arrival was the beginning of the end. The apocalypse. Kat-mageddon. "You know, I'm not going to get your sister in trouble."
"We'll see.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#85. It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Hunter S. Thompson

#86. If the family you came from sucked, make up a new one. Look at all the people there are to choose from. If the family you are in hurts, get on the bus. Like now.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#87. Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

Denis Waitley

#88. You have been resident in my house three months?"
"Yes, sir."
"And you came from
?"
"From Lowood school, in -shire."
"Ah! a charitable concern. How long were you there?"
"Eight years."
"Eight years! you must be tenacious of life.

Charlotte Bronte

#89. Well, fuck, Brandt whispered. All that rational thinking had to be thrown out the window. This was why he liked irrational thinking so much better. It took less effort and the conclusions you came to were harder to refute.

Abigail Roux

#90. Oh my fadder and I are one, " she said, "just me, just him, and dear, if you are wise you will run, run back to where you came from, run quickly, because to stay will mean worse than your death. No one who dies in Derry really dies. You knew that before; believe it now.

Stephen King

#91. The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'

Leon Bridges

#92. What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

Jodi Picoult

#93. I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself,
I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help,
Then you came along, and saw what state I was in,
You picked me up, when I was down,
Showed me how to live again.

James Morrison

#94. You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.

Neale Donald Walsch

#95. It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Daryl Gates

#96. You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you're going tomorrow." -Cree saying

Trace A. DeMeyer

#97. You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

Oscar Wilde

#98. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

Candace Bushnell

#99. You are here because Fate invited you. You cannot go back the way you came. I suggest you go forward instead.

Emigh Cannaday

#100. Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates