Quotes of: Were Keyword

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Pee Wee Reese

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Roberta Flack

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Robert Klein

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

Susana Martinez

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

Karen DeCrow

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Kristin Hersh

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Laura Lee Guhrke

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.

McG

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Malcolm Gladwell

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Norman Lear

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

Sarah Waters

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Annie Leibovitz

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Donald Tusk

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.

John Battelle

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thornton Wilder

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gad Elmaleh