W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We call you uneducated when you have 50-5000 friends on Facebook and you are still broke”
“We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.”
“We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.”
“We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
“We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.”
“We called our madness by other names in order to make it palatable. We called it passion, except on the days it soured and caught in our throats.
On those days, we called it love.”
Source: As Muses Burn
“We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.”
“We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.”
“We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].”
“We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer...So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day of record in Washington, or close to it...we went in the night before and opened all the windows...so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.”
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”
“We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and for all that we were good loving parents. We decided to let him live.
"What is painting doing in my best Tupperware bowl?" I yelled.
"Well, I needed something lightweight I could carry around with me," he began.
"You've been carrying around a brain for year," the boy's father said.”
Source: Every Time I Go Home I Break Out in Relatives
“We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.”
“We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.”
“We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.”
“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.”
“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“We came from different backgrounds; he was white from privileged class in America, and I black from a village in Africa, but he was kind generous, and he reached out to this young poor black boy. He changed the odds against me. Our friendship rose above race.”
“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“We came from some place and we are trending in a particular direction. Without memories, we do not know where we come from, and we cannot project our future trajectory. Without a keen awareness of our history, we cannot pose any meaningful hypothesis or engage in any useful speculation regarding the future of humankind. Without knowing where humankind came from and failing to contemplate where humankind is going, we could never touch upon a comprehensive understanding of the mythology and mystery of human nature. Such a spectacle would preclude us from comprehending what it truly means to be human. Melodious memories assist us to feel in our bones what being actually entails in its full aesthetic splendor.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We came from the earth, we return to the dirt, and we bloom, fade, and wilt in between.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.”
“We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.”
“We came here to be free of Old Valyria, and your Targaryens are Valyrian to the bone.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“We came here to pick up chicks, not talk about dicks.”
“We came home. I took off all the clothes that I'd worn there and threw them down the trash chute. I gave my cap to my little son. he really wanted it. And he wore it all the time. Two years later they gave him a diagnosis: a tumor in his brain...You can write the rest of this yourself. I don't want to talk anymore.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“We came home. I took off all the clothes that I wore in there and threw them down the trash chute. I gave my hat to my little son. He really wanted it. And he wore it all the time. Two years later they gave him a diagnosis: a tumor in his brain… You can write the rest of this yourself. I don’t want to talk anymore.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“We came in peace and we shall leave in peace,” Patricius determined. “At the moment the king and his tribe do not believe, but there may come a time when they think differently, and then it will be important that we have not lodged ourselves in their memories as equally wicked as themselves.”
Source: The Missionary
“We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.”
“We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.”
“We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe”
Source: A Heritage of Stars
“We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“we came naked into the world and we will exit naked.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We came next to a side door that led us back to the courtyard, where the ice now ran red with blood, then he made us all leap through a window that brought us to a winter garden, filled with flowers the color of twilight punctuated with violent hedges, their leaves black and spiky and their berries bright with poison.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.”
“We came on the wind of the carnival.”
Source: Chocolat
“We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”
“We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a big black velvet rump. A summer night to make anybody with standard glands feel that tidy homes, spring mattresses, four guaranteed meals per day, and legalised religion were all criminal to human development.”
Source: So Long, Hector Bebb
“We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.”
“We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2”
“We came so close,
Only a kiss away,
When the dream shattered
And we were left to admire
The fleeting moment,
Now just a memory”
“We came through one woman but life blessings us with many mothers.”
“We came to a clearing and stopped. Dark green vines with oblong leaves and purple flowers in pairs grew everywhere- under our feet, around tree trunks and small shrubs, in a circle at least thirty feet wide. Fat green-eyed insects buzzed lazily around the blossoms. A heavy, luscious fragrance filled the air.
"Honeysuckle!" I plucked a couple of flowers and took a moment to appreciate the dark purple petals that faded to lavender and then white at their base. I brought one to my nose and sniffed. My cousins had a vine like this at their house in India. But these blossoms were gargantuan, each one the size of my palm.
I pinched off the green cap that held the petals together, pulled on the little string that was exposed, and tasted the small glob of nectar that glistened at the end. My mouth burst with sweetness.”
Source: Midsummer's Mayhem
“We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
“We came to discover a world rich with culture, history, and bayous. This flat swampy territory is riddled with waterways, snaking like veins and arteries between forests filled with crooked cypress trees. Sulphur is home to a Cajun populace, and unlike its more well-known southeastern counterpart, New Orleans, which is predominantly Creole, it was originally settled by Acadians.”
Source: Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana