Came Quotes

I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.

I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, well, I don't have a book, and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.