All Quotes

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
‐‐ Ann-Margret

When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
‐‐ Odeya Rush

When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn

When I came to America, that's when I started to feel that there was a lot of push-back from women. I was definitely made aware that I am light-skinned. I realized that was a thing here.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!
‐‐ Maripol

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.
‐‐ George Smoot

When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

When I came to Congress, I campaigned for fiscal responsibility. And the earmarking problem and crisis caused a great erosion in the public's confidence in Congress. We've got to find a way to do it without that. And I'm confident that we can.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
‐‐ Bart Stupak

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived.
‐‐ Grace Lee Boggs

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.
‐‐ Toby Keith

When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.
‐‐ Jose Andres

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.
‐‐ Richard Lester

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
‐‐ Richard E. Grant

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.
‐‐ David Morrissey

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.
‐‐ Mildred S. Dresselhaus

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
‐‐ Chick Corea

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.
‐‐ Brad Thor

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
‐‐ Henry Flynt

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.
‐‐ Adam Rapp

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
‐‐ George Tenet

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.
‐‐ Matthew Hayden

When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.
‐‐ Ravi Teja

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
‐‐ Justin Hayward

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
‐‐ Ron Ziegler

When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it.
‐‐ Joseph DeRisi

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer