W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you were born and your mom saw your face and your rear end, she said "Oh! Siamesse Twins!"”
“When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.”
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.”
“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
“When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?”
“When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective”
“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”
“When you were dealing with a person separated from everybody by an invisible thick glass wall - like a bubble where he didn't let anybody in - every little thing mattered.”
Source: Two Months and Three Days
“When you were far
I felt that you're a life giving boon
But only in the moments
You came nearby
That I understood
You are the funeral pyre”
Source: The Curved Rainbow
“When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.”
“When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn't know you were having them.”
Source: Mrs.
“When you were her age, just out of college, the future was like oxygen. Without it, there was nothing. She didn't like telling the truth: She was stalled. She was waiting.”
Source: The Last Summer of You and Me
“When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there”
Source: There Once Was A Boy
“When you were in love like we were in love, there existed a temporary forever ahead of you. A knowledge that what we had was for life, but that life was only guaranteed by the second.
Which meant that every second I had a choice to make, I had to choose what would really make me happy. What most people never learned was that sometimes what would make us happy the most also scares us the most. Sometimes being happy meant being brave.
I aimed to be brave every second of every day.”
Source: The Fragile Ordinary: A Heartfelt YA Contemporary Romance and Coming of Age Story
“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”
Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice
“When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”
“When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm genuine. It's the best thing in the world.”
“When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.”
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“When you were living in the moment though, it wasn’t possible to truly understand how finite it all was. Don’t we all secretly hope that we are the exception to the rules of time? We might even be immortal. Then, one day, something happens, you see your aging reflection in the mirror, really see it, and you know you’ve been fooling yourself. You can’t go back and relive it again and remembering can be a beautiful thing, but it can also break your heart.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“When you were making pecan-smoked honey brisket at Cubby’s, you had to cook the meats slowly and then, at just the right moment, finish them in the radiant salamander broiler to achieve that delicate caramelized crust.”
Source: Sugar and Salt
“When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.”
“When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.”
“When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.”
“When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.”
“When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.”
“When you were strung out
and I kissed you
I imagined your mouth
a mound of cocaine,
inhaling your breath
like powder as I pushed
into you and you pulled
me with your bruised thighs.
Some nights we fucked so
slowly I dissolved
like a Quaalude in a glass
of vodka, and you drank
me down. We kept the room dark,
so we could not see
each other with our eyes
rolled back - or was it
because we did not want
to see ourselves.
It's taken me too long to think
of that, the way we never
thought the other would go,
and then one night
I woke up
sober
and yes,
still there.”
Source: Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line
“When you were the god of spring, helping the Earth come alive every year came with the god description. Her mother, Demeter, may have handled some of the harvests and the soil's fertility, but making the world bloom fell to Persephone. Every spring equinox she'd wander into the orchards and the meadows and put her personal touch on all that came alive. She made the yellow grass turn green with envy. She coaxed every poppy and asphodel bud to awaken from their slumber and shower the landscape in color. She made sure the olive groves flourished, and the figs ripened with honey-like nectar so that the smell of them baking wafted up to Mount Olympus.”
Source: Go the Distance
“When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf. This made her rare. This made her precious. This made him...love her.”
Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”
“When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.”
“When you weren’t always worrying about how to pay for your life, you could actually take a beat to enjoy it.”
Source: Good For You
“When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.”
“When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice?”
“When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.”
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year
“When you will be failure in life, your relative friends will blame on you. If you became successful they want you to give them credit for your success.”
“When you will become aware of who you really are, you will meet the biggest miracle of your life.”
“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
Source: A Little Princess
“When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.”
“When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.”
“When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.”
“When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.”
“When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.”
“When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.”
“When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.”