All Quotes

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
‐‐ Alison Owen

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
‐‐ Christopher Durang

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
‐‐ Tina Turner

When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
‐‐ Jenny Downham

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.
‐‐ Hoda Kotb

When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.
‐‐ Anne Cox Chambers

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.
‐‐ Princess Margaret

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'
‐‐ Al Madrigal

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
‐‐ Jim McKelvey

When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
‐‐ Padmasree Warrior

When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'
‐‐ Bill Cosby

When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
‐‐ John Oates

When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'
‐‐ Ledisi

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
‐‐ Bobby Knight

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
‐‐ James St. James

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.
‐‐ Junior Seau

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
‐‐ Andre Rieu

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'
‐‐ Mike Vogel

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.
‐‐ Marvin Sapp

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
‐‐ Gary Allan

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
‐‐ Dan Gable

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.
‐‐ David Friedman

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'
‐‐ Michelle Magorian

When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.
‐‐ Austin Mahone

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
‐‐ Om Puri

When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel