Quotes of: Became Keyword

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.

Missy Elliott

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

Buzz Aldrin

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined ...

Martin Jacques

A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now,...

The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothing; she fought when she could barely stand; she clung...

The Storyteller

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were a...

Winesburg, Ohio

Tuco: [to his brother the priest] While I'm waiting for the Lord to remember me, I, Tuco Ramirez, brother of "Brother" Ramirez will tell you something! You think you're better than I am... where we came from, if one did not want to die in poverty, on...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.

The Darkest Minds

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

Dreamcatcher

Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

Devil in Winter

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama

A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.

In Evil Hour

You’re different,” he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.

Entwined with You

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

The B-Side Diaries

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Bottle Rocket Hearts