Quotes of: Became Keyword

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

Anthony Liccione

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

Jesse Eisenberg

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and bea...

A Canticle for Leibowitz

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn’t ...

An American Childhood

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

The Day I Became an Autodidact

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Going Postal

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

American Gods

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

How I Became a Nun

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Louie Gohmert

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

Linda McCartney