Where We Come Quotes

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.

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

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

Even my bio on Instagram is like, 'That girl that fell at the Olympics.' Just as a joke. Because that's how people come up to me and that's what they say. That's how they remember me.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Rich people are those who know that the best is yet to come.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

Dreams don't come true, they are true.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a great melody and that's important.

Stay open and curious, and realize that the best is yet to come.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.