W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.”
“We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.”
“We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.”
“We were as hungry as hunters after a day of stalking prey. The word for Belinda's chicken, we agreed, was also epic, the meat deeply flavored, the rice flecked with tiny sour-sweet jewel-red barberries, and mined with woody spices you had to pluck out---cinnamon sticks, cloves, and black cardamom pods as big and wrinkled as prunes.
"This could be the best thing I have ever eaten," said Jennie.
"It's right up there," I said.
"The food writer agrees!" Jennie said. "Did you hear that, Belinda?"
"I just followed the recipe," said Belinda. "Anybody could make it."
Not true. Not everybody used quality organic chicken, high-grade extra-long basmati rice, hard-to-find black cardamom pods. The parsley and cilantro from Belinda's own garden were more flavorful than supermarket varieties. And Belinda had the great cook's touch; her onions were expertly caramelized, her chicken well browned, her rice cooked to the right tooth... No, not everyone could make this.”
Source: Search
“We were as merciless and cruel as most primitives are. But we learnt at that school the private nature of cruelty; and our inborn hatred for freaks and outcasts was tempered by meeting them daily.”
Source: Cider With Rosie
“We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk in the sun, and bleat the one at the other: what we chang'd was innocence for innocence. By changed he meant exchanged: What we exchanged was innocence for innocence. That has to be the softest core pornography I ever heard.”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.”
“We were asked to betray our own country,” she said. “They wanted us to clear the passage for the invasion. They were asking for our betrayal.”
Source: A Request For Betrayal: The Constant Companion Tales
“We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.”
“We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.”
Source: The Center of Winter: A Novel
“we were at rest and breathing
away from lovely death”
Source: The Last Usable Hour
“We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter up
there.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.”
“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.”
“We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.”
“We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.”
“We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness”
“We were beautifully different, and that was okay.”
Source: Wounds
“We were being put somewhere interesting from being involved with analog, to working with digital. Those two worlds just collided and it felt great! That was probably the key inspiration in terms of me going on to not just making dub plates for my sound, but doing the unobvious and "selling out" to the masses. I subsequently got a record deal because of that.”
“We were birthed with one soul to take care of, and we must take care of it.”
“We were blonde, but we weren't dumb.”
Source: Dancing through Minefields
“We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.”
“We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.”
“We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.”
“We were born as a single entity, we will face death on our own, and we must make our way back to the Divine under our own steam. Never give that right and responsibility away to another person, and never take it from another.”
Source: Touched by Love
“We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.”
“We were born between blood and gunpowder; and between blood and gunpowder we were raised. Every so often the powerful from other lands came to rob us of tomorrow. For this reason it was written in a war song that unites us: "If a foreigner with his step ever dares to profane your land, think, Oh beloved motherland, that heaven gave you a soldier in each son." For this reason we fought. With flags and different languages the foreigner came to conquer us. He came and he went.”
“We were born between Oh Yeah
& Goddammit. I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light,
& that sometimes I could see
Everything through nothing.
The backyard trees breathed
Like a man running from himself
As my brothers backed away
From the screendoor.”
“We were born free, we will die free. But in between we must seek freedom.”
“We were born from madness, you and I. The same tainted blood runs in both of us. You believe you are better than others, but we are pits of emptiness, black holes that nothing will ever fill. We devour the stars and galaxies that lie in our path, but no light passes through us. I have seen your soul, the bleakness of it. I have you seen, brother, and someday, all will see what you are trying so hard to hide: that there is nothing inside of you.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.”
“We were born in the mist of time on this land together with the oaks and fir trees. We are bound to it not only by the bread and existence it furnishes us as we toil on it, but also by all the bones of our ancestors who sleep in its ground. All our parents are here. All our memories, all our war-like glory, all our history here, in this land lies buried. . . . By what right do the Jews wish to take this land from us? On what historical argument do they base their pretensions and particularly the audacity with which they defy us Romanians, here in our own land? We are bound to this land by millions of tombs and millions of unseen threads that only our soul feels, and woe to those who shall try to snatch us from it.”
“We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.”
“We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.”
“We were born naked and have been taught to hunt and live on the game. You tell us that we must learn to farm, live in one house, and take on your ways. Suppose the people living beyond the great sea should come and tell you that you must stop farming and kill your cattle, and take your houses and lands, what would you do? Would you not fight them?”
“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?”
Source: AFRICAN GENISIS
“We were born of stars and in death we will return to them. Let's not strive to be black holes in the meantime. Let's illuminate the world instead of darkening it, instead of tearing it to pieces. Let's prove we are worthy of being stardust.”
Source: Arrow of Entropy
“We were born to be Encouragers. What we unlearned, we can easily relearn.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.”
“We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.”
Source: Art and Ardor
“We were born to inherit the stars”
“We were born to live.”
“We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.”
Source: A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever
“We were born to make mistakes due to our imperfections. Getting back up after being embarrassed and cleaning yourself while seeing people willing to still hang out with you that's a true blessing; that's life.”
“We were born to run; we were born because we run.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.”
“We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?”