All Quotes

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.
‐‐ Haylie Duff

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
‐‐ Uta Hagen

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
‐‐ Louis Auchincloss

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
‐‐ Thomas Goodwin

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
‐‐ Phil Harris

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
‐‐ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
‐‐ Jung Chang

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
‐‐ Ernest Thompson Seton

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.
‐‐ Jon Crosby

We were offered 100 'Sgt. Pepper' shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.
‐‐ Bun E. Carlos

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from 'Mr. Belvedere,' too. We stay in touch.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
‐‐ Robert Crippen

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
‐‐ Bo Derek

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
‐‐ Black Kettle

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
‐‐ Rachael Leigh Cook

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
‐‐ Robert Crippen

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
‐‐ Lalla Ward

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
‐‐ Calamity Jane

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?
‐‐ Kim Deal

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
‐‐ Blake Shelton

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
‐‐ Jack Irons

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
‐‐ Ronnie Hawkins

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
‐‐ Frank Ocean

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you're a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who's got these cooler shoes, and 'Let's trade lunches.' And I was just like, 'I don't have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.'
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
‐‐ John Lahr

We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
‐‐ Freeman Thomas

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
‐‐ Steven Levy

We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
‐‐ Jackie Stewart

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.
‐‐ Bronagh Gallagher

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.
‐‐ Greg Behrendt

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz