Quotes of: Were Keyword

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that

Life Simplified!

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

When You Were Here

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

We Were Liars

I was asked a series of questions. I lied every time.

When You Were Pixels

Did I have the courage to forge a path

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Stella Young

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Rebecca Harding Davis

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

Richard Leakey

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

Sylvia Earle

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Stephen Cole Kleene

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

Susan Olsen

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Theodore Bikel

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Travis Barker

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Lailah Gifty Akita