I Came Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

Life, Live, Tell

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Tell, Struggling

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield

Real, Tough, Put

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri

Life, Lost, Dark

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
Kelly Brook

Love, Yourself, Perfect

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge

Wish, Again, Return

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

Living, Why, Here

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
Josh McDowell

God, True, Jesus

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today, Made, America

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Stars, Action

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells

Home, School, Sunday

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick Jagger

Music, True, Around

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Olivia Thirlby

Change, Equality, Fight

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
Michael Caine

End, Done, Wanted

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
Enrico Fermi

Confused, Before, Here

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor Swift

Music, Time, Parents

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan

Death, Said, Absence

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
Amy Winehouse

Picture, Hospital, Recognize

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
Michael J. Fox

Education, Short, Felt

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter

Government, Pretty, Same

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart

Everything, Absurd, Canvas

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
Alan Dershowitz

Family, Time, School

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!
Drew Barrymore

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera

After, Rejection, Year

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Katy Perry

Human, Healthy, Prejudice

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.
Katy Perry

Mind, Different, Growing

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul

Hard, Lost, Become

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