Where We Come Quotes

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

The cup that went down under has now come up again.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.