Came Quotes

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

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.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.