W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
“When my brain functioning was at its worst, I was getting lost in my own neighborhood where I had lived for years.”
“When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.”
“When my brother Jem was 13, he had his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he wanted to be in the box. She finally realized he was talking about the television.”
“When my brother,…, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: ’Just my luck!’ he would say. ’What a pity she was not born a man!’ But then I gradually realized that people were saying ’It’s bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,’ and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.”
“When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.”
“When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.”
“When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around with a quitter.”
“When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.”
“When my child was bullied and called names for years, you all didn’t care. Now all of a sudden, since he/she is taking up for him/herself, it’s a problem.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.”
“When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.”
“When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice”
“When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.”
“When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.”
“When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.”
“When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.”
“When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.”
“When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.”
Source: True Spirituality
“When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ. Now it is covered and it is not honoring to the finished work of Jesus Christ to worry about it, as far as my relationship to God is concerned. Indeed, to worry about it is to do spite to the infinite value of the death of the Son of God. My fellowship with God is restored.”
“When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.”
Source: The crisis: a series of pamphlets in sixteen numbers, written during the American revolution
“When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight.”
Source: The House with a Thousand Stories
“When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.”
“When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.”
“When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.”
“When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.”
“When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.”
“When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.”
“When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.”
“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.”
“When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.”
“When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.”
“When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.”
“When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."”
“When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.”
“When my daughter was 10 she pointed at my face and said accusingly, 'Er - yuk! Witches have those.' I rushed to the mirror. There, sprouting determinedly from a mole on my chin, was a single sprout of hair. I was 45. Caroline, 53”
Source: Menopause: The Guide for Real Women
“When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.”
“When my daughter was born she had jaundice, she was small, round and yellow. we called her Melony.”
“When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.”
“When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.”
“When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.”
“When my decision for Christ was made . . . I knelt in prayer. I opened my heart and knew for the first time the sweetness and joy of God, of truly being born again . . .I knew in my heart that I was somehow different and changed. That night absolutely changed the direction of my life.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night’s rough husk.”
Source: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
“When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“When my ego surges, yours must halt. When yours flares, mine must yield. For if they both persist, we will cease.”
Source: Elle
“When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.”
“When my entire world fell apart
You picked up the pieces of my heart
I know it’s been a whole year
And I’ve faced my greatest fear
Of living in a world without you.”
Source: Lonely Hearts Day
“When my ex-husband called me
a black hole, he was, in a sense,
correct: my face a gravity field
so strong even light cannot beam.”