Quotes of: Became Keyword

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

Austin Peck

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

Amanda Torroni

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Ken Livingstone

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Thomas E. Mann

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

Tracey Ullman

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Victoria Principal

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Veronica Roth

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

William Westmoreland

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Zig Ziglar

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Ben Kingsley

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

Dermot Mulroney

'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

Karine Vanasse

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

Maya Angelou

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Gil Kane

In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally important teaching that every human soul is fatally...

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applicat...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

<...> slaves became the major form of Southern wealth (aside from land), and slaveholding became the means to prosperity. <...> The later impoverishment of the South nourished the myth that the slave economy had always been historically “backward,�...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary ta...

The Night Bookmobile

That wasn't enough. They weren't enough. Nor, she soon realized, was Will, though by every rational measure he ought to have been. ... He became ardent, spoke of love, hinted at marriage. She stilled his roving hands and deflected his near-proposals....

When She Woke

Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions ...

Eckhart Tolle

Stalker's Wife: And there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon became like blood... And the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. And t...

Stalker