Came Quotes - page 2

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. (George Mason)
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear. View quote
Tupac Shakur
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. View quote
Arthur Miller
Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level. View quote
Enrico Fermi
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses. View quote
Augustus
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. (Frank Frazetta)
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. View quote
Ed Harris
Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear. View quote
Daniel Handler
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. View quote
James Thurber
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
Joy always came after pain. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me I was a father. (Nat King Cole)
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. View quote
José Rizal
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. View quote
Norman Mailer