Came Quotes - page 5

Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. (Augusten Burroughs)
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. View quote
Phil Knight
As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy. View quote
Bernie Mac
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. View quote
Graham Brown
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. View quote
George Stigler
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published. View quote
Dick Bruna
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way, when they came, the offered themselves as a gift. (Donna Jo Napoli)
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. View quote
Claire Tomalin
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision. View quote
Agnes Martin
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. View quote
Neil LaBute
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist. View quote
Bob Schieffer
I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. View quote
Bill Griffith
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. View quote
Bob Riley
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. (Charles Kuralt)
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. View quote
Christie Hefner
The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it. View quote
David Talbot
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. View quote
David Talbot
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. View quote
Dick Schaap